YEREVAN. – A provision—where the term “gender” was considered an acquired conduct—in Armenia’s Law on Equal Rights and Equal Opportunities for Women and Men has raised a lot of uproar in the social networks, Hraparak daily reports.  

“The interesting thing is that [non-pro-government Prosperous Armenia Party] PAP MP Naira Zohrabyan made the initiative to correct this error.  

“In the meantime, the law is a joint proposal by the [coalition government’s junior partner, Orinats Yerkir (Rule of Law) Party] RLP [National Assembly (NA)] Faction and former Labor and Social Affairs Minister, PAP member Arthur Grigoryan, [and] it was passed in the parliament and voted on by the same PAP.   

“Besides the fact that the PAP member likewise has had a contribution in this term, the law was at the NA since 2011 and it passed three [NA] discussions, but no one opposed to this term,” Hraparak writes.