SPECIAL INTERVIEW
Dr. Habil Andrea Pető is an Associate Professor at the department of gender studies Central European University (CEU). In this interview with African News Hungary, she sheds light on gender studies and issues; feminism and women empowerment; discrimination against women; EU discourse on motherhood; racism and xenophobia; and what she calls FEMOCRACY. A historian and sociologist, Dr. Pető is an expert on European Comparative and gender history, gender and politics, women’s movement, qualitative methods, oral history and Holocaust. She is also an author having written many books including but not limited to Hungarian Women in Politics 1945-1951. She is currently working on the gender aspects of transitional justice after WWII. Holder of both honorary and academic awards (Officer’s Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary and Bolyai Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences); she says feminist men are needed in the struggle to change the society for better. Excerpts: