‘Pink education’: Hungary officials worry school system is ‘too feminine’
- A government report warns that favouring traits like ‘emotional and social maturity’ will hurt boys’ development and create demographic problems
- It argues that ‘over-representation of women’ in universities weakens gender quality and ‘boyish traits’ are necessary for optimal development of the economy
Hungary’s State Audit Office has issued a report about the risks of the country’s education system being “too feminine”, warning it could hurt the development of boys and create demographic problems.
The report was issued last month but had not caught public attention until the publication of a newspaper article on Thursday.
“The phenomenon called ‘pink education’ has numerous economic and social consequences,” wrote the state body which is seen as close to nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
Like in many countries, the teaching profession in Hungary is dominated by women, accounting for 82 per cent of teachers.
“If education favours feminine traits” such as “emotional and social maturity” and “provokes the over-representation of women in universities, equality [of the sexes] will be considerably weakened”, the report concluded.