{"id":42354,"date":"2022-03-11T14:17:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T05:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/11\/south-korea-gender-equality-anti-feminist-president-yoon-suk-yeol"},"modified":"2022-03-11T14:17:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T05:17:09","slug":"devastated-gender-equality-hopes-on-hold-as-anti-feminist-voted-south-koreas-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42354","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Devastated\u2019: gender equality hopes on hold as \u2018anti-feminist\u2019 voted South Korea\u2019s president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Election of Yoon Suk-yeol, who has blamed feminism for low birthrates, seen as a \u2018pivotal moment\u2019 for public discussion of women\u2019s issues  <\/p>\n<p>The election of an avowed \u201canti-feminist\u201d as the next president of South Korea has been greeted with dismay amid accusations Yoon Suk-yeol fuelled the county\u2019s gender divide to garner support from young male voters.<\/p>\n<p>Former top prosecutor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/09\/yoon-suk-yeol-elected-president-south-korea\">Yoon defeated the liberal ruling party candidate Lee Jae-myung<\/a> by a margin of 263,000 votes in one of the most closely contested presidential elections in recent memory.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/11\/south-korea-gender-equality-anti-feminist-president-yoon-suk-yeol\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election of Yoon Suk-yeol, who has blamed feminism for low birthrates, seen as a \u2018pivotal moment\u2019 for public discussion of women\u2019s issues  The election of an avowed \u201canti-feminist\u201d as the next president of South Korea has been greeted with dismay amid &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2929,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,222,281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-women"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2929"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42355,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42354\/revisions\/42355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}