What do middle and high school students in Romania know about the concept of feminism? Where did they first hear about it ? What kind of connotations does the term have in their collective mind? Can young people name some feminists around them? These are the questions behind the study “What is feminism? Perceptions of […]
Romania needs more than 100 years to eliminate inequalities between women and men[1] and has even regressed in this area. Gender gaps are particularly prevalent in women's political participation and access to economic opportunities. In this context, there is a pressing need for trained professionals that can work on gender mainstreaming in public institutions and private companies. […]
Today's girls, along with the boys, will live in a better world if they continue, adapt and assume the aspirations, ideas and involvement of feminist generations before them. Are today's young people willing to claim what is yet to be claimed, to adjust what is yet to be adjusted, to change what is yet to […]
This article is based on the master’s thesis research “Anti-gender movement and political response. The case of Romania”, presented by Carmen Radu/Front Association in September 2019, at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Political Science Department. What is “gender ideology”? The “war on gender ideology” could be schematically defined as a social movement against a broader area […]
AnA Society for Feminist Analyses conducted a research among Romanian high school students to find out their perception of the concept of feminism and the connotations that the term has for them. The processing of 147 questionnaires (81 girls and 61 boys, 5 questionnaires did not have information on sex or name) showed that: This […]
On the 16th of October 2018, Roxana Marinescu (Societatea de Analize Feministe AnA) represented the Coalition for Gender Equality in a meeting with PES women politicians in order to exchange on women’s rights and gender equality issues in Romania. PES representatives were hosted by PSD, as a member of the Party of European Socialists. The […]
Author: Carmen Radu, Front Association What measures must the Romanian government implement by 2021 to fight discrimination against women? From offering services to help women survivors of violence, to ensuring the provision of sexual education in schools, gender quotas for political candidates, gender quotas for companies listed in the Stock Exchange, prohibiting the practice of […]
