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<http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/author/dcgere/> Coming soon – transgender
traffic lights? German politicians announce plans to introduce 50/50 quotas
for traffic lights
<http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2014/11/16/coming-soon-transgender-traffic-lights-german-politicians-announce-plans-to-introduce-5050-quotas-for-traffic-lights/>
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DailyMail
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2834552/German-politicians-announce-plans-introduce-50-50-quotas-traffic-lights-flashing-green-men-women.html>:
Gender equality with traffic lights is being pursued in Dortmund, with *50/50
quotas for male and female icons set to be introduced*.
Politicians from the Social Democratic and Green parties in the German city
have asked the council to consider the idea. *They’ve argued that some of
the lights should be partially modified in the name of equality.*
The application said: ‘Since we give equal treatment to men and women, it
would be consistent to partially modify traffic-light men to traffic-light
women’, according to *The Guardian*
<http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/14/german-city-traffic-light-women-dortmund>
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The plan is for extra flashing green women to be installed when traffic
lights fall into disrepair to keep costs at a minimum.
*The plan’s backers claim that the change would make crossing the road
safer as female icons – or Ampelfrauen - would emit more light through the
skirt. *‘One advantage of the “traffic light woman” would be the
enlargement of the illuminated area," the Green and Social Democrats said
in a statement.
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Other German cities such as Bremen, Cologne, Dresden, Kassel, Magdeburg and
Zwickau already have female lights, but their introduction was barred in
Berlin, *with officials concerned that the design – of a girl with pigtails
– was too clichéd*, The Guardian reported.
DCG
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