Hungary’s university ban on gender studies heats up culture war

“Hungarian Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjen hinted at it during an interview in August: Hungarian universities would no longer offer gender studies as a discipline. According to Semjen, nobody wanted to employ ‘genderologists’, so there was no need to train them. He also called the idea of gender as a social construct ‘absurd’ …” (more)

[Keno Versecke, DW, 18 October]

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