8th February 2025

Could the women work perfectly in the field of underground mining? Almost only military men go to war. How many women are employed at the cement factories, apart from the only few who work at offices? The equality law is passed. Could women do the same job as men? It is a fact that women can do some jobs, but not all kinds of work. Women can work perfectly when choosing in their fieldwork.

There is widespread support for gender equality 25 years after the United Nations’ Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action committed to “remove all obstacles to gender equality and the advancement and empowerment of women.” In a poll conducted by Pew Research Center across 34 nations, 94% of respondents said it is important or very important that women in their country have the same rights as men.

Gender equality is valued more by women than by males in many nations. On the other hand, women are more likely to believe that males have better lives than women and are less hopeful than men that women in their nations will ever achieve equality.

Despite widespread support for gender equality, at least four out of ten people believe that men in their nation generally have greater possibilities than women in terms of obtaining well-paying employment (a median of 54% across the 34 nations polled) and rising to positions of leadership in their communities (44%). The public perceives greater fairness when it comes to expressing political opinions (63 percent feel men and women have equal possibilities) and obtaining a quality education (a median of 81% believe men and women in their country generally have the same opportunities in this area). No more than 6% of respondents believe women have more chances than males in all three areas.

Despite the fact that gender equality is widely supported worldwide, a sizable portion (a median of 40% across the studied nations) believe that men should have a greater right to employment than women in times of job scarcity; 56% disagree. Men are more likely than women in a few nations to believe that men should be given preference when employment are limited. In Kenya, Nigeria, Bulgaria, South Africa, Israel, Slovakia, Italy, Argentina, and the Czech Republic, there are double-digit gender discrepancies.

In 34 nations where the question was posed, 46% of respondents said that males had a better life than women, 15% pointed to women, and 31% said that neither gender had a better life than the other. Men in their country enjoy a better quality of life than women, according to majorities in France, Spain, Sweden, the UK, Canada, the US, Turkey, Australia, and the Netherlands. Only in Tunisia do more respondents believe that women live better lives than men, even though similar percentages of respondents believe that men and women have equivalent quality of life.

Most people are optimistic about the future of gender equality in their nation, even though they recognize some benefits for men. Across the 34 countries polled, a median of 75% believe women may someday have the same rights as men, while 5% say that women have already attained equality in their nation.

With gender variances of at least 10 percentage points in ten nations and smaller but substantial differences in eleven more, males are generally more optimistic than women about the possibilities for gender equality. For instance, in Japan, 77% of men and 58% of women believe that women would have equal rights at some point in the future or now do. Only two of the countries surveyed—Nigeria and the Philippines—had a higher percentage of women than men who expressed optimism about gender equality.

Is it possible that women can equally do the hard jobs that men do?

 

 

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