New rule to ban harmful gender stereotypes next year
(WorldNews Europe)

Speaking ahead of a reception at the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, Ella Smillie from the Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP), announced that a new rule will be introduced in the UK Advertising Codes next year to ban harmful gender stereotyping in advertising. The review by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) on harmful gender stereotyping in advertising, Depictions, Perceptions and Harm, published last summer, provided an evidence-based case for stronger regulation of ads that feature stereotypical gender roles or characteristics which can be harmful to people, including ads which mock people for not conforming to gender...