Danielle Hazel, left, speaks throughout a information convention accompanied by her lawyer Gloria Allred, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024, in New York. (AP Picture/Joe Frederick)
NEW YORK — A New York lady is difficult the longstanding guidelines of Miss America and Miss World that disqualify moms from their magnificence pageants.
Danielle Hazel stated Monday, Sept. 16, that she’s at all times dreamed of coming into the competitions however was devastated to be taught that she’s not eligible as a result of she had a son when she was simply 19 years previous.
“Once I instructed Zion, who’s now 6 years previous, about these guidelines he had a direct intestine response: he stated that these guidelines are silly,” she stated, talking on the Girls’s Rights Pioneers Monument in New York’s Central Park. “His sense of equity at solely 6 years previous tells him that that is unjust and is senseless.”
Hazel’s lawyer, Gloria Allred, stated a grievance despatched Monday to the town’s Fee on Human Rights seeks an finish to the necessities as a result of they deny and exclude moms from an “vital enterprise and cultural alternative” merely due to their standing as dad and mom.
“As we acknowledged in Danielle’s filed grievance, this exclusion is degrading to Danielle as it’s based mostly upon the antiquated stereotype that ladies can’t be each a mom and be lovely, poised, passionate, gifted and philanthropic,” Allred stated.
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Spokespersons for the Miss America and Miss World pageant organizations didn’t instantly reply to emails in search of remark Monday. A spokesperson for the human rights fee stated the company doesn’t touch upon open investigations.
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Allred famous that she beforehand had success difficult an analogous rule for a California mom denied eligibility to compete within the Miss California pageant, which is a part of the Miss Universe and Miss USA organizations.
The discrimination grievance filed by Andrea Quiroga with the California Civil Rights Division prompted Miss Universe to remove its 70-year-old rule, which was imposed worldwide by way of its affiliated organizations, Allred stated.
“Being pregnant or being a mother or father is just not against the law and shouldn’t exclude a person from employment or enterprise alternatives,” Allred stated. “A person’s standing as a mother or father shouldn’t carry a stigma and no particular person ought to must really feel embarrassed, humiliated, or degraded as a result of they’ve grow to be a mother or father.”
The 2 ladies have been joined Monday by Veronika Didusenko, who was topped Miss Ukraine 2018 solely to have the title stripped when the Miss World group discovered that she had a baby.
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Didusenko, who has since created a corporation advocating for an finish to magnificence pageant bans on moms, stated she misplaced her authorized problem in Ukraine however is in search of reduction from the European Courtroom of Human Rights.
