"Linemen Ahead"...that's sexist!

  A 7-year old girl in New Zealand has convinced that nation's transport agency to change signs warning of "Linemen" at work.  She say such a sign while driving with her father and interpreted it as something sexist..so she complained in an email. She wanted to know why the sign said "men" when women could also be working the lines.  Well, the New Zealand Transport Agency agreed a change was in order, but the problem was, there wasn't enough room on the signs to change them to read Line-Workers.  A compromise was reached and signs are now being changed to read "Line Crew"..... READ ALL THE DETAILS HERE


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