Answer:
Generally, progressive reforms, gender role changes, unequal economic gains and cultural seeming permisiveness provoke resistance from more conservative sectors. This is so because the creation or acceptance of new rights implies a transfer of power by the most powerful sectors, which are those who generally support conservative policies, while seeking to maintain the status quo.
Thus, conservatives consider that this type of transfer of rights expands the powers of other social groups, in turn diminishing their own rights and powers. Therefore, tensions are generated between the two groups, which are resolved through political agreements.
