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Getting to know you: mapping the anti-feminist face of right-wing populism in Europe

These three parties are only a part of the right-wing populist anti-feminism that is spreading across Europe. The European Women’s Lobby and its members continue to keep track, and evolve policies to resist.

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Geert Wilders ( second from left), Frauke Petry and Marine Le Pen at congress of the right-wing populist ENF group in the European Parliament in Koblenz, Germany, 21 January 2017. Thomas Frey/Press Association.

Anti-feminist populism is on the rise across large parts of Europe, although its face looks different in different places. Some populists claim to be defenders of women's and gay rights, while others are more explicitly anti-feminist with a top priority to crush "gender ideology" and to reinstate traditional gender roles throughout society.