The Demographic Summit, an international gathering of ultra-conservatives, took place over two days last week. Organised by the illiberal Hungarian government led by prime minister Viktor Orbán, it supposedly focused on demographic problems with a regional scope, such as decreasing birth rates in central and eastern Europe. But Nőkért Egyesület – an organisation set up to protect the rights of women in Hungary – suspected that, in line with Orbán’s pronatalist policies, gender stereotypes and ‘b