Thank you for the question.
I think we all know that progress on women's rights isn't linear. When you make advances, it often comes with a backlash. At Oxfam, I'd say that, to some extent, the countries where we're seeing the strongest backlash are also those where feminist movements have been built up and supported and have been making progress on women's rights. That's what often has that counterpoint of backlash. Since the emboldening of anti-rights, anti-choice actors because of what has happened across the border in the States with the reversal of Roe v. Wade, I think we have seen a trickle effect across the world in terms of pushing back on some hard-won gains.
When we talk about backlash, it's not only the big picture in terms of pushing back on women's rights. It can be anything, like, at the school district level, a schoolteacher not letting a young girl come back to the classroom because either she got pregnant or it's known in the community that she had an abortion. There are backlashes at every single level, from the household up to the policy level.