Charlotte airport rejects 'issue' ads focusing on women's rights

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Charlotte airport rejects 'issue' ads focusing on women's rights
Posted By Jerry Klein on Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 2:49 PM

UPDATE: The airport (sort of) replied to our request for comment after we published this story. "We are looking into this with the agency that oversees our advertising program and will get back to you as soon as possible."

As if there hasn’t been enough drama surrounding Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, another dust-up emerged Thursday when word came that it refused to accept advertising from a national women’s advocacy group that wanted to install billboards reminding viewers of policy decisions in North Carolina that hurt women and families.

UltraViolet, an online community of over 550,000 women and men who “take collective action to expose and fight sexism in the public sector, private sector and the media,” included both Charlotte and Raleigh in a national campaign designed to welcome tourists and natives with a reminder that women are still, in 2014, paid less than men and that many still can’t access adequate reproductive health care and paid family medical leave...

...Not taking no for an answer, UltraViolet plans to rent nearby space for their billboards, which show the Wright Brothers’ bi-plane under an “UltraViolet Board of Tourism Welcomes You To North Carolina” banner, with headlines reporting that the state “doesn’t guarantee ANY paid maternity or sick leave,” has “more than 20% of (its) women living in poverty,” and where “day care costs $2,600 more per year than college tuition.”....

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