Haredi radio station fined for gender discrimination
Kol Berama, an ultra-Orthodox radio station, has been ordered to pay a fine for gender discrimination, in a first of its kind legal ruling:
Kol Barama, a haredi (ultra-Orthodox) radio station, will pay women for excluding them from the air due to a final ruling by the Jerusalem District Court.If it's wrong to exclude blacks from interviews on such stations, then by the same logic, it's wrong to exclude the fairer sex too. For causing distractions from more pressing matters, this is what the ultra-Orthodox in charge of the station decidedly deserve.
This is the first class action lawsuit on civil rights and gender segregation in Israel. [...]
Kol Barama broadcasted for two years without a single woman's voice. In 2012, the Israeli Religious Action Center (IRAC) and Asaf Pink filed a class action lawsuit against the station on behalf of Kolech, the Religious Women's Forum, for exclusion of women.
The station will pay 1 million NIS in damages, not including legal fees, which will be transferred to a class action fund that intends to distribute the money to programs that empower religious women.
Labels: communications, haredi corruption, Israel, misogyny, Moonbattery
