French parliament backs bill against hair discrimination affecting black women

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France's lower house approves a bill targeting workplace discrimination against natural hair, particularly affecting black women

France’s lower house of parliament on Thursday approved a bill forbidding workplace discrimination based on hair texture, which the draft law’s backers say targets mostly black women wearing their hair naturally.

In Britain, the Equality and Human Rights Commission has issued guidelines against hair discrimination in schools. The draft law does not, in fact, contain the term “racism”, noted Daphne Bedinade, a social anthropologist, saying the omission was problematic. In the political sphere they include former government spokeswoman Sibeth Ndiaye, and Audrey Pulvar, a deputy mayor of Paris, whose afro look has attracted much negative comment online.You must unlearn things before scars of division can be removed

 

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