The AfD claims to be women-friendly, but in its policy program and on social media it propagates an image of humanity that demands traditional gender roles, rejects abortion and defines motherhood as a political ideal.
In the discussion about the AfD, in addition to immigration policy, anti-constitutionality and party scandals, the question of what their election victories would mean for more than half of Germans is often overlooked. For the women. Pollsters from the Berlin-based company Civey recently asked 5,000 adults in Germany exactly this: “Are you concerned that, as the AfD becomes more successful, the progress it has already made in gender equality could be reversed?” The distribution of answers, which were presented at a meeting of the “Frauen100” initiative in Berlin, was rather undecided. 36 percent answered yes, another ten answered “probably yes,” 14 percent “probably no,” and 34 percent “definitely not.” When asked whether the AfD represented a positive or negative image of women, 27 found it positive or somewhat positive, 23 percent answered “partly, partly”. Half found it somewhat or very negative.