{"id":118978,"date":"2023-11-27T09:10:37","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T07:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/from-feminist-champion-to-persona-non-grata-what-happened-to-spains-equality-minister\/"},"modified":"2023-11-27T09:10:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T07:10:37","slug":"from-feminist-champion-to-persona-non-grata-what-happened-to-spains-equality-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/from-feminist-champion-to-persona-non-grata-what-happened-to-spains-equality-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"From feminist champion to persona non-grata: What happened to Spain\u2019s Equality Minister?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118978\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nMontero, who was hailed on the cover of Time magazine as the saviour of feminism in Spain now faces a completely uncertain political future. But why? Her jaw clenched as she spoke, Spain&#8217;s former Equality Minister Irene Montero last week wished her successor courage &#8211; not luck. &#8220;Today, Pedro S\u00e1nchez is kicking me out of this government,&#8221; Montero said, referring to the newly re-elected Spanish prime minister&#8217;s cabinet appointments.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00e1nchez, who is known for his unexpected cabinet reshuffles, decided not to count on her to continue leading the Equality Ministry and appointed a surprise new minister for feminism, the unknown Ana Redondo. &#8220;I hope they never leave you alone and that you have the courage to make the president&#8217;s 40- and 50-year-old male friends uncomfortable,&#8221; Montero said angrily, minutes before handing Redondo the gender equality portfolio. Her voice, which threatened to break, managed to hold up during the speech.<\/p>\n<p>Hailed on the cover of Time magazine only last February as the saviour of feminism in Spain, Montero now faces a completely uncertain political future. &#8220;Since she became minister in 2020, a nation that not 50 years ago required women to obtain their father&#8217;s or husband&#8217;s permission in order to work has consolidated its position among Europe&#8217;s most feminist countries,&#8221; said the publication. But why did the former minister go from front-page news to being removed from office?<\/p>\n<p>The daughter of a removal man and a teacher, Montero &#8211; whose only job before entering politics was as a supermarket cashier &#8211; rose to the top of Spanish politics with Podemos. It was in 2015 that the insurgent left-wing party became a dazzling star, putting an end to the two-party system that had been in place in Spain since 1982. Four years later, Spain&#8217;s ruling Socialists entered into a coalition agreement with Podemos, and Montero took over the equality ministry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a lot of polarisation around her, especially from people outside her party. She is a minister who generates resentment and antipathy. She is not the typical candidate who generates transversality. But this is not a yardstick to judge whether she has been a good minister or not,&#8221; political scientist Llu\u00eds Orriols told Euronews. &#8220;There are ministers who seek transversality and consensus and other ministers who want to push an agenda that they know will generate a lot of opposition because it touches on some very entrenched elements in the political culture of a country,&#8221; he adds.<\/p>\n<p>The minister herself told Time magazine that she had a choice to make: &#8220;Are we going to dare to be part of the democratising impulse coming from the feminist movement and civil society, or are we going to maintain a more timid or conservative attitude?&#8221; Although Equality has always been a controversial ministry, Montero&#8217;s tenure has been particularly turbulent. Many have criticised her for &#8220;hijacking feminism&#8221;, to the extent that the feminist movement became subservient to the ministry.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/11\/27\/from-feminist-champion-to-persona-non-grata-what-happened-to-spains-equality-minister\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/11\/27\/from-feminist-champion-to-persona-non-grata-what-happened-to-spains-equality-minister\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/from-feminist-champion-to-persona-non-grata-what-happened-to-spains-equality-minister\/\">From feminist champion to persona non-grata: What happened to Spain\u2019s Equality Minister?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[12414,571,12415,12416,1102,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-118978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-equalityy","tag-minister","tag-nongrata","tag-persona","tag-spain","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}