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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 percent), Turkey (52 percent), Japan (48 percent), China,
Russia, Hungary (34 percent each) and South Korea (33 percent) 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 percent, 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 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 5446
Turkey 5248
Japan 48 52
China 34 66
Russia 34 66
Hungary 3466
South Korea 3367
Czech Republic 28 72
Australia 25 75
United States 2575
Great Britain 2278
Netherlands 2080
Canada 2080
Italy 19 81
Poland 1882
Belgium 1684
Germany 14 86
Spain 1288
Brazil 1090
Sweden 1090
Mexico 9 91
France 9 91
Argentina 9 91 |
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发表于 2016-7-10 17:42:18