An advertisement promoting women’s rights in Pakistan sparks outrage:
A woman displaced by flooding holds her newborn baby in Sindh province, Pakistan, in 2010.
In Pakistan, critics are denouncing an international detergent brand for an advertisement that challenges gender stereotypes in the conservative country,reports. The commercial for Ariel soap, owned by U.S.-based Proctor & Gamble, calls for women to break free of repressive traditions and pursue careers.
In the ad, women representing different professions, including journalism and medicine, push dirty sheets out of view. The sheets are printed with common refrains used to oppress women in Pakistan, AFP reports, including the question, “What will people say?” The ad ends with the captain of Pakistan women’s cricket team saying, “Stay within the house … these are not only sentences, but stains.”
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