The concept backlash (which could be translated as recoil, rebound either counter-reactionThis describes a structured and hostile backlash against advances in equality, especially against women's rights. It is an ideological and cultural counteroffensive that does not arise from isolated responses, but from a coordinated strategy with a clear objective: to promote a counter-reform that reverses social gains in rights and freedoms.

With the highest data of young people who despise feminism And amid the offensive of far-right rhetoric against equality policies, the 8M demonstration kicked off this Sunday in Barcelona – promptly at 11:30 a.m. – for International Women's Day. This year, the feminist movement sought to confront the reactionary wave and warn of the rise of the far right and conservatism, which sends messages contrary to human rights that until now were thought to be inviolable. "I'm out for the same reasons as always, but now it's more necessary than ever: the world, what has happened and what may happen, is frightening," explains Teresa, one of the 24,000 demonstrators – according to estimates by the Barcelona City Police – who took to the streets of Barcelona.

In today's interconnected world, defending women's rights and sexual and reproductive rights is a shared responsibility.

The Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) are investigating two sexual assaults in Sant Joan de les Abadesses, in the Ripollès region. The two incidents are not believed to be related, although they occurred five days apart in a town of just over 3,000 inhabitants. Municipal sources admit that the town is shocked, and the City Council has called for a protest this Friday at 6 p.m. in the Plaça Major (Main Square). The first sexual assault took place on the night of February 26-27 at a residence in the town. A young woman, over 18, reported that she had been assaulted by a young man. The Mossos are already investigating this case, which has not yet resulted in any arrests. Initially, it appears that the complainant and the alleged perpetrator knew each other. The second assault occurred this Wednesday night on the street in a residential area of ​​Sant Joan. The victim is a middle-aged woman who, according to her report, was assaulted by a young man. The assailant allegedly held her captive and threatened her with a knife, which caused several cuts. During the assault, the man allegedly groped her, but the woman managed to escape and call emergency services. The victim was taken to the hospital, where she was treated for superficial cuts.

For no less than nineteen centuries, the inferiority of women to men was not questioned, and we sometimes forget this. To take just one example, at the end of the 19th century, Gustave Le Bon, a French sociologist and physicist, wrote: "There are a great many women whose brains are more like the size of a gorilla's than a man's, which is more developed. Those who have studied women's intelligence, as well as poets and novelists, recognize today that it is closer to that of a child or a savage than to that of a civilized adult man."Anthropology Review, number 2, 1879).

March 8th is coming again, and many women will once more take to the streets to denounce all that remains to be done to achieve equality, and, above all, to highlight the unbearable violence of all kinds that, once again, seems to be escalating against us. How distant that March 8th of 2018 seems, when girls, mothers, and grandmothers flooded the streets, and for a moment, we thought that the path toward true equality was finally unstoppable!

Today is not March 8th, and the problems are the same as yesterday. Today is not March 8th, but the wave of involution continues and will affect men, women, and, in general, anyone who does not fit the parameters of that suffocating masculinity perfectly fulfilled by the leaderships of Trump, Putin, and Xi.

Today is not March 8th and the problems are the same as yesterday. Today is not March 8th, but the wave of regression continues and will affect men, women and, in general, anyone who does not fit into the parameters of that suffocating masculinity that the leaderships of Trump, Putin and Xi perfectly fulfill.

In an increasingly interconnected world, the concept of collective intelligence has gained relevance, either due to its growing need in complex decision-making or due to its worrying absence in some political, economic and social spheres. According to the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, it refers to the ability of a group to solve problems and generate knowledge more efficiently than its members separately. As with individual intelligence, it can also be measured. Studies on the collective intelligence quotient (CIQ) have identified various variables that influence a group's ability to solve problems efficiently. These variables include the level of collaboration and communication between members, cognitive diversity, social sensitivity and the degree of inclusion and equality in the participation of people within the group. These same studies have shown that the presence of women significantly increases CIQ, since it favors, among others, social sensitivity and cooperation, key factors for more efficient group decision-making.

With the far right gaining ground in parliaments and governments and women's rights threatened around the world, we spoke to four women who are fighting against this regression of rights in four areas: sexual and reproductive rights, labour rights, the rise of sexism among young people and new forms of hatred. Feminism and feminists as a dam against anti-rights discourse.

March 8 is a good time to take the temperature on parity. In Europe, despite the pressures and the increase in power of the reactionary far right, it can be said that on paper the laws defend equality, although in the rest of the world, women are prohibited from marrying whoever they want, deciding about their own body or dressing as they want. The eight maps shown here show that women's rights still have a long way to go.

Madrid has not been spared from the storm that has been affecting the State for days, but that has not been an impediment for thousands of people to fill the most central streets of the Spanish capital this Saturday, when 50 years of the Official Declaration of International Women's Day are commemorated. A little after 12 noon the demonstration organised by the 8-M Commission started. Umbrellas and raincoats have been the allies of the thousands of people, the vast majority women, to resist the rain that fell and that although it has made it difficult to start the march, it has not stopped it. Little by little, the demonstrators have gone up Paseo del Prado with slogans such as "We feminists are here" and have headed towards Plaza de Cibeles. Once there they have crossed Gran Via, one of the main arteries of the city, to be able to finish the demonstration in Plaza Espanya. According to the first calculations of the organisation, more than 80,000 people attended the demonstration. "Rain or snow, feminists move," was heard at one point during the demonstration.

Given recent international events, the possibility of a setback on the path to women's equality seems increasingly likely. The truth is that the upward curve is not always constant, but sometimes has setbacks. But I am optimistic and think that this will not happen and that we are facing a process that is, for now, unstoppable.

Given recent international events, the possibility of a setback on the path to women's equality seems increasingly likely. The truth is that the upward curve is not always constant, but sometimes has setbacks. But I am optimistic and think that this will not happen and that we are facing a process that is, for now, unstoppable.

Whenever March 8th comes around, men, who are a small part of the female ocean of sports journalism, are asked to go to talks or debates for which we are normally never called. It's our day! We have to give ourselves the voice that we don't usually have to, strategically, clean up the image of the preponderance of women giving their opinions everywhere. When more than three men coincide in front of a microphone doing a football analysis, it is an extreme modernization. At least, we have reached 2025 making female bosses, programme directors and editors realise that, even if it is for hygiene reasons, it is something ugly that there is not a minimum presence of men. Until very recently, these women who occupy positions of power by system, did not see that a corporate photo without any men could grate.

This year, March 8, International Women's Day, finds us in the midst of a wave of reaction due to the push that Donald Trump is giving to the most conservative positions both in the United States and in the countries and formations within his sphere of influence. In the dossier we speak with activists, professionals and scholars who, from their different fields, maintain positions on such relevant issues as cyberbullying or labor or reproductive rights. We also look at what is happening abroad, with the cases of the United States, Iran and Afghanistan, Korea and Argentina.

Gender inequalities emerge very early. Children are already aware of this at the age of 10 and 11 and have some things to say about it: among their proposals is the end of violence and discrimination (especially sexism and racism), equality between people (including between boys and girls and also at school) and ending aesthetic pressure. This is what they ask for in theChildren's Agenda, a document prepared after consulting more than 5,000 children in Barcelona, ​​​​which includes 11 demands, 30 proposals and more than 100 ideas from children to improve the well-being of children.

Looking back today, March 8, 2018 seems much further away than it was seven years ago. At that time, we thought that the great wave that was beginning to rise would be the unstoppable wave, the definitive one. It was the great wave. The streets were filled with collective indignation and revolution. The wave rose imposingly. The entire world was bathed in a movement that came from afar, waves that broke down walls to make way for the women who came behind. But those of us who came came up against more walls, the old ones that had not yet fallen. And, like our predecessors, we stumbled against the foundations, against the pillars of the patriarchy rooted in the planet, as if there were no other possibility of life than violence and systematic discrimination against women; against this social organization that still prevails, the one that men decided how it would be, not only without asking the opinion of women but prohibiting women from having an opinion. And then they called them naive. On this disastrous pillar a new world order is now growing, one that is older than walking. With women leading the extreme right so that we can hear: "Women, when they are bad, are much worse than men." In pain, it is clear that we are well valued. It is curious. But as a curiosity, I will say that feminism defends equality. And we already feel bad that women have to be equalized by the extreme right and not by the left, but feminism does not make women good or bad. Nor does it make women better than men. The people who think that when we are bad, we are worse, are the same ones who believe that feminists are a pain. They are the same people who maintain that one in two women has suffered sexist violence in Spain because they provoke it, that feminicides are perpetuated because jealousy kills and that the wage gap increases because women do not want positions of responsibility. And we all live in that world.

This Saturday, the feminist movement is preparing for another major mobilization for Women's Day, March 8. If rain permits, the agenda is full of rallies and demonstrations in cities and towns throughout Catalonia, as well as a labor and care strike called by the CGT union at workplaces. The novelty in Barcelona is that, for the first time, there will be two demonstrations, as has been the case for years in Madrid. This is due to the division of feminism over issues such as the regularization or abolition of prostitution and the rights of trans people. We explain the routes of the mobilizations and review the history of the movement. International Women's Day.

It seems paradoxical that, in a predominantly female sector, where women are the main customers and represent the bulk of the workforce in the fashion industry, very few reach the top of the pyramid. According to the latest data, the female presence on the boards of directors of Ibex35 companies is less than 25%. However, the European Commission has established that, by 2026, at least 40% of the members of the boards of directors of listed companies must be women. In general management positions, the figure is even lower. We spoke to some of the fashion designers and executives who are leading a change towards equality in the sector.