According to sources one in five people around the world believe women are inferior to men and should stay at home, and that men are more capable in the workplace and at school. Meanwhile a global survey reported that nearly all of the 17,550 people surveyed agreed that men and women should have equal rights, but three in four respondents said women still experienced social, political and financial inequality.
Kully Kaur-Ballagan, director at Ipsos MORI that carried out the poll said "It's encouraging that the vast majority of both men and women around the world believe in equal opportunity but at the same time most still believe that true equality of rights is not here yet”. Further across 24 countries, including Brazil, Canada, Russia, Britain, India and Sweden, more than half of those interviewed by Ipsos MORI called themselves a "feminist", but a quarter said they were "scared" to speak up for women's rights.
Furthermore around half of those polled in China,
Russia and India said men were superior to women and better at earning money
and at attaining education, which was released to tie in with International
Women's Day on Wednesday. Moreover the World Economic Forum said in its 2016
gender gap index that men and women will not reach economic equality for another
170 years.
