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On this sign, woman = person… and in most places in the world, most of the time, that is weird!<\/p>\n
The sign, found here<\/a> (via<\/a>), can be found in Haarlem, Netherlands.<\/p>\n UPDATE: <\/strong><\/span>In the comments, Tara linked to a BBC story<\/a> about Fuenlabrada, Spain. They’ve replaced half of all walk\/don’t walk signs with figures in skirts.<\/p>\n And Astrid linked to some examples from Germany<\/a>.<\/p>\n The social construction of female as skirted aside, neat!<\/p>\n Spain:<\/p>\n Germany:<\/p>\n NEW! <\/strong><\/span>Pharmacopaeia also linked to a sign from New Zealand<\/a>:<\/p>\n Also in the comments, Caroline asked us to link to our post where stick figures suddenly sprout skirts when paired with children<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n Lisa Wade is a\u00a0professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On this sign, woman = person… and in most places in the world, most of the time, that is weird! The sign, found here (via), can be found in Haarlem, Netherlands. UPDATE: In the comments, Tara linked to a BBC story about Fuenlabrada, Spain. They’ve replaced half of all walk\/don’t walk signs with figures in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[218,55,2103,2096,2087,1777,1790,1802,1789,293,23622],"class_list":["post-11447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodies","tag-gender","tag-gender-bodies","tag-gender-femininity","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-nation-germany","tag-nation-new-zealand","tag-nation-spain","tag-nation-the-netherlands","tag-social-construction","tag-social-construction-symbols"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11447"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51962,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11447\/revisions\/51962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"_42384378_domingo300bo\"](\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/08\/42384378_domingo300bo.jpg\" "\\"_42384378_domingo300bo\\"")
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