Italy to change sexist graphic on newly launched virus-tracing app

Wrongful gender stereotyping are one of the root causes for discrimination, abuse and violence. Photo: Visualhunt.com

A controversy over gender stereotypes has broken out in connection to Immuni, Italy's newly launched mobile tracing app for the novel coronavirus.

One of the graphics in the app shows two figures in a domestic setting: on the left, a woman looking after a baby; on the right, a man working on a laptop.