“Does this mean Aldi are expecting only women and mothers to go shopping?”
Baby-changing rooms, public toilets – lots of facilities used by families out and about every day are aimed at mums, often leaving dads out of the equation.
One father from Kent in the UK has taken issue with the new child-friendly car parking spaces at his local Aldi.
Dad livid over Aldi’s new dad or mum and youngster parking area signal – are you able to see why? https://t.co/2QpHd0rWqs pic.twitter.com/XP9zH09u7u
— The Amed Post (@theamedpost) October 29, 2018
While some other supermarkets have spaces show figures without an obvious gender, the Aldi spaces feature a figure in a dress.
The anonymous dad told Metro that while it is an “unconscious bias”, it sends out the wrong message.
“Does this mean Aldi are expecting only women and mothers to go shopping?,” he said.
“Should fathers and men park elsewhere? They are happy with the child having no obvious gender.
“I wanted to highlight the issue as it’s a little frustrating in 2018.
“I guess its more of an unconscious bias that we have in us, and we are all guilty at various times.
“It was just something that irritated me.’
The man continued that the spaces are unfair to women.
“It seems that the onus is still on women that they must raise the family and manage this – which is unfair.
“I was surprised and disappointed that a store like Aldi, who seems to want to be the newcomer to the area and market, would have an old-fashioned way of thinking.”
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