2024-05-22 19:53:04
The nightclub “Studio 23 membership” situated within the Žirmūnai microdistrict of the capital publicizes occasions “Ladies get the whole lot” on social networks. The advertisements make it clear that girls can enter them totally free. The nightclub organizes such events periodically, as could be judged from the ads on the Fb social community, the final of which befell on Might 10 of this 12 months.
Such advertisements didn’t go unnoticed by one man who wrote a criticism. As a part of its investigation, the Equal Alternatives Ombudsman approached Bingesa, the corporate that manages the membership, again in February and requested it to clarify the gender hole within the membership’s entry pricing. There was no response to repeated letters and calls, the final contact was made in April of this 12 months.
“The representatives of the membership didn’t fulfill the duty to show that the precept of equal alternatives was not violated, so the fabric introduced within the criticism was relied upon. From it, it may be concluded that within the revealed commercial one gender is portrayed as superior to the opposite, as ladies have extra favorable situations for getting into the membership than males,” says Karolis Čepas, a lawyer on the Workplace of the Equal Alternatives Controller.
He factors out that in line with the Legislation on Equal Alternatives for Girls and Males, it’s prohibited to supply companies at totally different costs relying on the gender of the consumer. “Accordingly, the regulation additionally prohibits the publication of details about such companies, as it might discourage individuals of the other intercourse, on this case males, from making use of for companies beneath the identical situations. It was on this foundation that discrimination was established,” notes the lawyer.
The Workplace of the Equal Alternatives Ombudsman issued a warning to Studio 23 membership for violating the Legislation on Equal Alternatives for Girls and Males.
2024-05-22 19:53:04