-----Original Message----- From: Dovile [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 6:46 PM To: GAINSNet Moderator Subject: Re: news Dear colleagues, Greetings from Vilnius! I'm sending you interesting news from Lithuania and would like to ask you to place that in your Internet news bulletin. Sincerely, Dovile Rukaite Women's Issues Information Center Lithuanian health minister revokes requirement for future women drivers to visit gynecologist Lithuanian Health Care Minister Romualdas Dobrovolskis has revoked the requirement for women to visit a gynecologist as part of their medical examination before obtaining driver's license. The minister passed the decision to revoke the requirement only more than five months after the Lithuanian Equal Opportunities for Women and Men Ombudsman Ausrine Burneikiene remarked that the requirement mentioned should not be applied to women. According to the revoked requirement of preventive medical examinations, it was mandatory for women to have a gynecological check-up before obtaining driver's license, whereas men were not required to visit an urologist. Indignant at the requirement, a 24-year-old lawyer from the city of Panevezys in northern Lithuania addressed the Equal Opportunities for Women and Men Ombudsman last October. Having investigated the complaint, Burneikiene announced in early January that no gynecological illness could become an obstacle for women to get driver's licenses. The ombudsman proposed to the health care minister to amend the document regulating driver's medical examination. The procedure was changed five months after the ombudsman expressed her position concerning the requirement in early May. VILNIUS, May 14, BNS Women's Issues Information Center (WIIC), E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: www.undp.lt/wiic =========================================================================== This is GainsNet, the mailing list of the UN-INSTRAW-GAINS Network Members. To reply to the GainsNet group, click on "reply all" To reply to an individual, click on "reply" To unsubscribe from GainsNet, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line
