The diverse involvement of women at local, regional and federal level has long been central to the political development of the US. Nevertheless, women are still significantly underrepresented in political office. Can this change now?

In Italy, a new Catholic movement is emerging, which is pursuing counter-democratic goals and giving a new dimension to the backlash.

White feminist discourses often obscure gendered and racialised lines of belonging and struggle specific to the vulnerabilities of Black women. The murder of Breonna Taylor highlights why feminism cannot be colour-blind. 

The coronavirus pandemic – just like society – runs along fault lines of gender, race, class and other inequalities. With women over-represented in vulnerable frontline jobs, there are fears that technologies proposed to tackle the pandemic could inflict harms that differ based on gender. 

Is the European Green Deal gender blind? How can the EU deal with the danger of a backlash on gender equality in the face of pandemic and the subsequent economic crisis? Which ways forward are there to better connect the feminist and climate movements?