A Lib Dem council has been forced to apologise after claiming in an equalities report that e-bikes can help women ‘stay looking nice’ and ‘perform their traditional domestic responsibilities’.
Kingston council received backlash after publishing in an equality impact assessment for a report on an e-bike hire contract that the vehicles ‘may increase women’s access to cycling and physical activity by making it easier for women to meet their traditional domestic responsibilities, as well as stay looking ‘nice’ on a bike’.
Furious residents called out the sexism on Facebook, with one woman writing: ‘Kingston council e-bike sexist horror’, and: ‘Weep, women of
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