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CDA
November 23, 2022
The DGT is going to replace some signs that it considers sexist with others that comply with the principles of equality.
The Government, through the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT), intends to change some of the traffic signals that we currently have. The reason? It is thought that they can be macho and that may be contrary to the principles of equality.
For this reason, some new and Others that are in force will be updated, modernizing its design or changing it based on new social, technological or cultural conventions. This is stated by the DGT, which has published a draft together with the Ministry of the Interior, detailing some of the modifications.
There are still signs contrary to the principles of equality
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The changes that are proposed to be carried out in road signage are intended to “traffic signs in which a man is represented as a pedestrian or as a driver”. Likewise, those in which “the woman appears in a situation of dependency and subordination will also be modified; for example, a woman who follows a hiking man or, even, in the case of children, a boy who leads the girl by the hand, who goes after the boy, both to school».
The draft also alludes to those “signs related to caring for people or the domestic sphere, in which a woman is represented.” In another section of the draft, it is concluded: “even though progress has been made, signs contrary to the principles of equality still survive«.
These are the new traffic signs you will see in 2023
In this way, the same draft proposes that signs that represent a man as a pedestrian or driver be replaced by a neutral figure and in others such as caution in school areas (Sign P-21) or caution in areas frequented by the elderly (Sign P21b), the roles will be changed and It will be the girl who takes the boy by the hand Y the old woman who goes before the old manrespectively, and not vice versa.
