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Source: ONE News
Women head governments, run companies and comprise about half
the world's workforce, but a global poll shows that one in four
people, most of them young, believe a woman's place is in the
home.
The survey of over 24,000 adults in 23 countries, conducted by
Reuters/Ipsos and released on the eve of International Women's Day,
showed that people from India (54%), Turkey (52%), Japan (48%),
China, Russia, Hungary (34% each) and South Korea (33%) were most
likely to agree that women should not work.
And, perhaps surprisingly, people aged between 18 and 34 years are
most likely to hold that view, not those from the older, and more
traditional, generation.
However, the majority, or 74%, of those polled believe a woman's
place is certainly not at home.
"Over the past century, women, collectively, have made great gains
not only in terms of societal participation - from politics to the
workplace to sports and the media and to intellectual pursuit - but
there are still barriers to many," said John Wright, senior vice
president of market research company Ipsos.
"This poll has a fundamental expression embraced by a full majority
that women, individually or otherwise, should have the ability to
choose to do what and where they believe they can make their
greatest contribution" he said.
In countries where most people believed women should stay at home,
or where the majority held the opposite view, there was little
difference between the sexes, the survey showed.
For example, in India, the country where more than half of those
polled said women should stay home, an almost equal number of men
and women held this view.
The following results table from the survey conducted between
November and January begins begins with the countries where
citizens are most likely to agree that a women's place is in the
home.
All figures are percentages.
"A woman's place is in the home"
Agree
Disagree
India
54
46
Turkey
52
48
Japan
48
52
China
34
66
Russia
34
66
Hungary
34
66
South Korea
33
67
Czech Republic
28
72
Australia
25
75
United States
25
75
Great Britain
22
78
Netherlands
20
80
Canada
20
80
Italy
19
81
Poland 18
82
Belgium
16
84
Germany
14
86
Spain
12
88
Brazil
10
90
Sweden
10
90
Mexico
9
91
France 9
91
Argentina
9
91
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