Thirty years after the International Women’s Conference in Beijing, where the international community committed itself to, among other things, true gender equality, an end to sexual violence against women, and greater political participation of women, many of these achievements or their implementation are now being questioned or reversed.
Jerker Edström, who heads the Countering Backlash programme, was interviewed by Welt-Sichten’s Melanie Kräuter, and explains how such setbacks occur and who is driving them. In the interview, Jerker speaks to:
- The causes of backlash
- Who the driving forces behind them are
- Why backlash groups rely so heavily on traditional values and outdated gender roles
- Why the regressive backlash movement is so popular
You can read the full interview on Welt-Sichten’s website (article is in German. Your web browser may translate it into English or another language).