Viktor Orban's advisers are concerned about the phenomenon of "pink" education in Hungary. Too many women with university degrees can endanger the economy, lower the birth rate and disadvantage men , reads a report drawn up by councilors who are very close to the Hungarian president.
According to this report, cited by the Guardian online, women are "over-represented in Hungarian higher education", and " an increase in female graduates could make women less likely to marry and have children ".
Over the past decade, the document claims, more women than men have enrolled in Hungarian universities (54.5% this fall). According to the report, "female traits" such as emotional and social maturity are favored in the Hungarian education system, which means that sexual equality would be "considerably weakened" . And the Hungarian economy could be put at risk if the "male traits" - technical skills, risk-taking and entrepreneurship - were underestimated.
A report that has attracted numerous criticisms from several Hungarian politicians and human rights experts. Hungary has long been in the crosshairs for its gender inequalities: Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatovic , said in 2019 that the country is falling back on gender equality and women's rights.
Orban is trying to revive the falling birth rate in Hungary: in 2019 it announced that women with 4 children will be exempt from paying income tax for life.
(Unioneonline / L)
