Hungary, whose social policies have sparked international condemnation over everything from its treatment of migrants to LGBTQ rights, now appears to be taking aim at educated women.
Having too many female college graduates threatens the economy and demographics by skewing education in their favor and making it more difficult for them to have children, according to a report by the State Audit Office. The work, entitled "Signs of Pink Education in Hungary?!,” was published on July 1 and reported by Nepszava newspaper on Thursday.
The emergence of the report underscores just how Hungary is increasingly out of step with its fellow European Union members, not just politically but socially. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has sought to emphasize what he has described as "traditional” values in his self-proclaimed "illiberal democracy,” including enshrining in the constitution that a family is comprised by the union of a man and a woman.