«BACKGROUND AND AIMS
The aim and focus of the present analysis is to map the backlash against gender equality and women’s
rights in the recent years of the present decade in selected EU member states: Austria, Hungary, Italy,
Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. These countries were selected taking into account Opinions, all
Initiative reports or the Delegations that the FEMM Committee has programmed in the course of 2018.
The analysis aims to identify and describe areas, measures and initiatives that have increased risks or
have put women and girls in a more disadvantageous position, decreased the protection of women's
rights, as well as eroded their established entitlements, or which have blocked related progress.
The report does not provide a comprehensive and in-depth overview and assessment of the situation
of women in the countries concerned, or of state performance and the institutional, legislative and
policy framework in gender equality and women’s rights. It seeks to introduce the basics of that
framework, and to describe those areas, policy fields and issues that are revealed to have been mostly
affected by the backlash and by movement in a negative direction. In this context, the study also
reflects on some missed opportunities where progress has not happened despite the potential for this,
as well as reflects on new problems that have arisen in recent years.
The analysis is based on desk research and a literature review, as well as interviews made with – and
other contributions provided by – national experts in the relevant countries».
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