83% of respondents are biased towards women

More than 83% of respondents in 60 countries of the world have prejudices against women, according to data from a new study by the UN Development Program.

According to surveys conducted in 2017-2022, 81% of women and 85% of men are biased towards women. They expressed prejudices in the political, economic and educational spheres, as well as in the field of physical integrity of women. In the ten years since the last study, the figures have practically not changed, the authors of the report note.

About half of the respondents believe that men cope better with the role of political leader and business manager than women. Almost 67% justify the beating of wives by men and/or consider any abortions unjustified.

Among the surveyed Russians, 9 out of 10 have prejudices against women. About 70% declared the superiority of men over women in political and economic leadership, almost 57% – in the field of physical integrity of women. At the same time, since the 2010s, the situation has improved only in the political sphere – by less than half a percent. In others, it worsened.

New Zealanders were the most unprejudiced towards women: more than 72% of them do not have a single prejudice. In Tajikistan, 99.9% of respondents expressed prejudice against women. Moreover, there was not a single man who was completely unbiased towards women, the same was recorded in Libya and Nigeria. In Pakistan, not a single woman rejected all prejudices about herself.

Among the reasons for slowing progress in the field of women’s rights, despite the feminist movement and the #MeToo campaign, experts name the seizure of power in Afghanistan by the radical movement “Taliban”, the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States and the “anti-feminist” leader Yoon Seok-yeol in South Korea.

“I am encouraged that the majority of young people are clearly outraged by this retreat and strive for an equal society,” says Heidi Stökl, a German researcher of gender violence.