Triumph of the Women? – The rising popularity of populist and far right parties among women
Categories: Roundtable
Date: 29/11/2018
Time: 15 h 00 - 17 h 00
Location: FES EU Office
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The rising popularity of populist and far right parties among women and implications for progressive players
Women voters were long thought to be relatively immune to the election policies advocated by right-wing populists and right-wing extremist parties. That has changed, however. In absolute terms the proportion of women voters for most of these parties is still lower than that of men, but the gap is narrowing. A number of women hold leading positions in right-wing populist parties, giving them a female face as it were, but what is the situation behind that façade?
Against this background, we present the study “Triumph of the Women? The Female Face of the Populist and Far Right in Europe” that focuses on six European countries. In their case studies, the authors analyze the policy objectives of populist and far right parties on gender and family issues, the role of women in those parties, women’s voting behavior and possible (counter)strategies from progressive players. The study serves as a basis for this roundtable’s key question: What are the implications for progressive players when it comes to gender and family policy?
Agenda
Welcome by:
Renate Tenbusch, Director, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung EU Office
Introduction to the study and its concept:
Elisa Gutsche, Policy Officer for Gender Policies, Forum Politics and Society, FES Berlin
Triumph of the Women? The Female Face of the Populist and Far Right in Europe
Weronika Grzebalska, Board Member of the Polish Gender Studies Association and Claussen-Simon PhD completion fellow at the ZEIT Foundation’s Trajectories of Change Programme, Graduate School for Social Research, Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw
Comments:
Mary Honeyball, Member of the European Parliament (S&D-Group), Vice-Chair of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (tbc)
Karen Vandekerckhove, Head of Unit “Gender Equality”, DG Justice, European Commission (tbc)
Chair:
Dr. Ov Cristian Norocel, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Université libre de Bruxelles and Docent in Political Science, University of Helsinki
