Gender

Comparing data from across Europe, Cristina Suárez Vega looks at how citizens are experiencing the rising cost of living.

Gendered narratives overlook the vital role women are playing in the resistance to the war.

Questioning the dividing line between East and West on LGBTQI+ emancipation.

Why has the pandemic made inequalities in Europe so much worse and what can be done to repair the damage?

The UN climate regime has a gender problem and it negatively affects our ability to combat the climate crisis.

Breaking the silos of the mainstream and in gender equality policies requires a new approach centred around justice.

Covid-19 and a challenging political climate put feminist gains at risk in Spain. Recovery must address inequalities to prevent a downward spiral.

The EU’s strategy for tackling gender discrimination may be a new chapter for gender equality in Europe, but the road ahead is long and winding.

Melodrama is the genre of choice of the far right, through which it pays special attention to fights with environmentalists, feminists, and minorities.

In Poland the incumbent right-wing Law and Justice party, backed by the Catholic Church, demonised LGBT organisations in its recent successful electoral campaign. Adam Ostolski spoke to feminist activist and scholar Agnieszka Graff about why gender politics have become central to Polish politics, taking a step back to analyse how the Right’s scapegoating of gender is a response to the same set of social issues that the Left attributes to neoliberalism.