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Giovanardi said she plans to keep up the \"pressure\" with her petition because, for her, Oxford University's reply was not enough.

\"Our point is that sexism against someone is not acceptable and it is not okay to have definitions like these about women,\" she said. \"We also want them to remove the sentences that denote women being the property of men, and there’s a lot of them,and make it more inclusive.\"

And even people who may not sign the petition should walk away from the debate asking themselves questions, according to Giovanardi.

\"I hope people ask themselves if are we doing enough to patrol sexism and see how widespread it is and ask if we are we taking it seriously enough,\" she said. \"Because it’s very embedded in every part of society.\"

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