New Zealand is changing a sexist road sign after they got called out by a 7-year-old girl

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• Seven-year-old Zoe Carew noticed something amiss with a common roadside safety sign in New Zealand.
• She pointed out that the sign warning of "linemen" — people working on overheard power cables — ignores the fact that women can do that job, too.
• She wrote to The New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) to point this out.
• The boss of the NZTA read her letter, decided that she's right, and is changing the signs to say "line crew" instead.

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New Zealand is changing the wording of a sexist road sign after a seven-year-old girl called them out in a letter to their CEO.

Authorities in the country are going to replace signs warning drivers about "linemen" — people working on overhead power lines — with gender-neutral ones which say "line crew" instead.

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