Single women are zeros, according to textbook

Feb 07, 2007
By Arturas Racas

VILNIUS - Lithuania’s Office of Equal Opportunities ombudsman urged the country’s Education Ministry to remove from schools a textbook that discriminates against single women. “We believe that describing a single woman as zero in a textbook is incorrect, and [we] are convinced that textbooks with such descriptions should not be used in the education process,” Valdas Dambrava, spokesman for the ombudsman’s office told The Baltic Times. The Lithuanian language textbook, in use since th ...

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