Brazil women's clothing store bans men


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Shop owner, Costa, had enough of men harassing her customers and employees so she put in place a blanket ban on men in her store. Pets, though, are welcome. Photo: Matt Seymoure/Unsplash

Sick and tired of men harassing her clients and employees, the owner of a women's clothing store in Brazil decided to take matters into her own hands and ban them from her shop.

"No men allowed," reads the sign that entrepreneur and model Andrea Costa hung in the window of her store in a shopping mall in Sao Jose dos Campos, a city of 700,000 people in the southeastern state of Sao Paulo.

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