Gender retreat in Argentina: dismantling institutions and public policies on gender diversity/equality in Javier Milei’s government
Abstract
This article discusses on the gender backlash in Argentina stemming from decisions and actions taken by Javier Milei’s administration that disregard previous commit ments to gender equality norms. It examines the dis mantling and reshaping of gender institutions and public policies throughout the country during the first twenty months of this administration (2023-2025). The main conclusions include a thirty-year setback in the protection and recognition of the rights of women, girls, adolescents, and LGTBIQ+ people; the State’s denial of the need and obligation to intervene in situations of discrimina tion, dependence, subordination, and exclusion, affecting women and LGTBIQ+ people; a regression in national government’s leading role in gender policies; a shift in the cognitive framework, loss of comprehensiveness, and abandonment of the gender, human rights, and intersec tionality approach in State intervention; and the under mining of collective socio-political democratic processes in the construction of the gender agenda.
