Inside Europe: Spain's backlash on gender equality
Politics
Guy Hedgecoe
February 7, 2019
In the last four decades since the end of the Franco dictatorship, women's rights in Spain have seen huge advances. But the recent electoral success of the hard-right Vox party has appeared to unleash something of a backlash. Known for its opposition to immigration and Catalan separatism, the party is now putting gender equality and gender violence at the center of Spain's political debate.