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Media portrayal of women is focus of panel


Baroness Joyce Gould, left, chair of the UK Women's National Commission, and Jan Floyd-Douglass, right, who is on the board of the same commission, were among the speakers at a panel discussion held 3 March in conjunction with the UN Commission on the Status of Women. They are shown with Zarin Hainsworth-Fadaei, also of the UK.
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When Jan Floyd-Douglass decided to buy a new car, she bypassed suitable models from eight different manufacturers – and then wrote to tell them why. “I love your car but I didn’t buy it because I don’t like your advertisements because they demean women,” wrote Ms. Floyd-Douglass, who is on the board of the Women’s National Commission in the United Kingdom.

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