Forty - eight per cent of men and 32 per
cent of women believe that on the whole men and women receive equal pay for doing jobs of equal value.
More than 50 per
cent of women believed it would be uncomfortable to breastfeed in public, and a majority of men and women did not want their child to be breastfed in public for fear of embarrassment.
Not exact matches
For example, 62 per
cent of liberal Protestants
believe that a married
woman who wants no more children should have the right to an abortion, whereas only 46 per
cent of the moderates, and 28 per
cent of conservatives, agree.
Carried out for the Fabian Society and the Barrow Cadbury Trust, the survey showed that 42 per
cent of people think that male bosses instinctively prefer to promote male employees, with 35 per
cent believing that sexism and discrimination in the workplace were significant limiting factors for
women.
Of the 460
women in the programme, 80 per
cent believed their risk to be higher than it actually was.
According to research by Trilogy, six out
of 10
women believe that people expect online photos to have been retouched or have a filter applied, yet 61 per
cent of Australian
women do not see the use
of a filter as a form
of retouching.
Roughly 80 per
cent of those
women did not report it, either through fear
of not being
believed, or out
of embarrassment or worry that it might cost them their job.
A new survey says 83 per
cent of Canadians
believe that investing has traditionally been viewed as a role for men, and 48 per
cent contend that
women are intimidated by investing.
Additionally 45 per
cent of women do not
believe that the same career opportunities are available to all, regardless
of gender compared to 23 per
cent of men.