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Nine out of 10 people are biased against women, says ‘alarming’ UN report
Researchers ‘shocked’ at lack of progress, and entrenched social norms that curtail women’s chances in politics, business and work
www.theguardian.com
Published by the UN development programme on Monday, it found that half of people in 80 countries believe men make better political leaders, 40% believe men are better business executives and a quarter believe it is justified for men to beat their wives.
These figures, from data collected between 2017 and 2022, were largely unchanged from the previous GSNI report, published in 2020, which used data from 2005 to 2014.
“We have experienced a serious backlash and rollback of women’s rights, most notably in Afghanistan but also in the western world with the election of Donald Trump or in South Korea, where an anti-feminist president was elected recently,” said Stöckl. “What makes me hopeful is that, in the majority, the younger part of the population clearly resents this backlash and is striving for an equal society.”
The UN report calls for women’s economic contributions to society to be better recognised, including unpaid work, for laws and measures that ensure political participation to be enacted, and for more action to fight stereotypes.
“These views persist because of social and cultural norms that devalue women and reinforce men’s power, control and feelings of entitlement, as well as promoting beliefs that trivialise and normalise violence against women and even blame victims for their own abuse,” said Andrea Simon, director of the End Violence Against Women Coalition. “It is these attitudes that can drive violent acts and behaviours and we can only truly prevent this violence by shifting these attitudes.”
Well well well... I wonder why 90% of people think something is true (probably because it is).
Even after all the brainwashing, 90% of people (from both developed and undeveloped countries) have some sort of prejudice against women (i.e. they think women have flaws, which is heresy to them), that would include at least 80% of all the women themselves.