Horizon Europe EU-funded research project on actors, attitudes, agendas, and strategies that push back against gender equality and democracy and evidence-based strategies to counteract this pushback.
Gender equality is an ongoing struggle, and there is still a long way to go to achieve full equality of rights and opportunities between men and women. In the meantime, a new movement against gender equality is gaining traction in Europe, weakening democracies.
The EU-funded Push*Back*Lash project will look at the backlash against feminism and gender equality and its impact on democracy. It will examine phenomena such as hate speech in social media, anti-equality debates in political parties and parliaments, and citizens’ attitudes towards democracy and feminism. In addition, the project will develop and test counter-strategies that can effectively counteract anti-gender and anti-feminist discourses.
To develop sustainable solutions, the research team will bring together gender activists, EU experts and researchers from several fields such as political science, anthropology, communication and media, philosophy, sociology and social psychology.
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2021 research and innovation programme under grant agreement N° 101061687.
Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
Professor Dr. Zoe Lefkofridi
zoe.lefkofridi@plus.ac.at
Dr. Vera Beloshitzkaya
vera.beloshitzkaya@plus.ac.at
