Female ministers and opposition condemn leaflet from League members in southern Italy on the ‘natural role’ of womenRepresentatives of the far-right League in southern Italy have provoked fury after producing an explicitly sexist leaflet to mark International Women’s Day. It was intended to be a dedication to women, but the pamphlet instead takes aim at those who “offend women’s dignity” by impeding their “natural role” of “supporting life and the family”. The leaflet ends with a message saying that women have “a great social mission to fulfil in regards the survival of our nation”. Members of the opposition centre-left Democratic party said the flyer “aimed to take women back to the Middle Ages”. “This leaflet takes us back years,” said Giulia Grillo, Italy’s health minister; Elisabetta Trenta, the defence minister and Barbara Lezzi, the minister for the south, in a statement.

Source: The Guardian March 07, 2019 12:06 UTC