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muriel_volestrangler

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Sat Aug 27, 2022, 10:28 AM Aug 2022

Hungarian government wants women barefoot and pregnant [View all]

The number of "WTF" moments in this article is too many to excerpt:

Hungarians warning education becoming 'too feminine'- report

The authors warned that an increase in female graduates could make women less likely to marry and have children.
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In 2019 he announced that women with four children would be exempt from paying income tax for life.
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The report found that "feminine traits" such as emotional and social maturity were favoured in Hungary's education system, which meant that sexual equality would be "considerably weakened".

The researchers warned that Hungary's economy could be put at risk if "masculine traits" were undervalued, which they listed as technical skills, risk-taking and entrepreneurship.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62686894
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