thelocal.se - 10/7/2009
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Published: 6 Oct 09 16:26 CET Online: http://www.thelocal.se/22504/20091006/ Dictionary tool Double click on a word to get a translation US-based toy retailer Toys"R"Us has been reprimanded for gender discrimination following a complaint filed by a group of Swedish sixth graders about the ...
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 10/1/2009
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
Göran Hägglund, Minister for Health and Social Affairs
It’s all about health care these days in the...
United States, so I thought I might offer a profile of the Swedish health care system. In a turn of phrase that I expect we’ll never ...
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Health Care in Sweden
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Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/6/2009
Gates of Vienna —
... because he felt bad about leaving them waiting in the vehicle. But that doesn’t matter. You can’t keep sheep in areas with food in this way,” Svensson told TV4. The three living sheep have been taken back to their breeder. “My wife is terribly upset because of all of this. She’s done everything right; she sold the animals living, as it were. You sell live sheep to someone else so they can grow up or be slaughtered later when it’s time,” the breeder told the TT news agency. [image] Sweden: Toys”R”US Scolded for Gender Discrimination US-based toy retailer Toys”R”Us has been ...
What We Missed
Feministing —
... A group of Swedish sixth graders campaign against a Toys R Us catalogue's gender stereotyping results in a public reprimand for the store. ...
Swedish Kids Report Toys"R"us for Gender Discrimination
Tennessee Guerilla Women —
... The Swedish 6th graders objected to the sexist stereotypes found in the Toys"R"us catalog. Anyone who has ever browsed a Toys"R"us store with their eyes open, here in the U.S., knows that said gender stereotypes are so in-your-face normal, it's a wonder that the culture has managed to progress even somewhat beyond the gender restrictions of the 1950s. Toys"R"us would make a great poster child for a class action gender discrimination lawsuit. ...
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