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Former SYRIZA minister's sexist post about current education minister

Featured Former SYRIZA minister's sexist post about current education minister

Former Minister Costas Gavroglou tried to explain his post from yesterday, which was directed in a sexist way against the Minister of Education, Nikis Kerameos.

After the uproar that was caused, the forme SYRIZAr minister with a new post tried to justify his reprehensible comments that "women can't do mathemetics". Specifically, in a new post on his personal Facebook account, he wrote:

"One of my posts was misunderstood, obviously because some people do not understand the word stereotype. Any stereotype, then, is reprehensible. There is a stereotype that has been reproduced for years now regarding the relationship that women have with mathematics. There is and is an important part of an ideology that wants to underestimate women. Wrong, bad obviously!
So when Ms. Kerameos makes a statement that suffers from a mathematical point of view, she reproduces this stereotype, this wrong view that women do not do well in mathematics ".

Gavroglou's post that caused a stir

It is recalled that yesterday, commenting on the positions of the Minister of Education regarding the average number of students in each classroom, Costas Gavroglou had written:

"It is a given that Mrs. Kerameos is making fun of us. Consciously. But with the announcement of 17 students on average per clasrooms, it reinforces the stereotype that women do notdo well in mathematics. You will say thgis is just fine print. Here they sent a deputy minister of the government to a celebration of hatred, the reproduction of stereotypes is the problem? And yet. "

Kerameos' answer to Costas Gavroglou

Moments later after the incomprehensible attack against the Minister of Education, Niki Kerameos gave her own answer via twitter.

"An unthinkable statement, especially from the former Minister of Education! Instead of struggling to break down sexist stereotypes, some (try to) take us back [to them]. The position of the Equality Department of SYR on the subject would be interesting, Regarding the propaganda of SYR for the number of students per class, I refer it to the data mentioned in Parliament (average 17 students in the Territory & 20 in Attica / Thessaloniki, always excluding special education schools that have an extremely small number of students)