Percentage of countries saying gender equality is important

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  1. Survey is from 2019, so take with a grain of salt. Also, what people spontaneously define as *gender equality* will surely differ from person to person.

  2. Find it interesting how the US has one of the highest levels of support for the statement and yet is in the process of destroying womens’ rights.

  3. We should speak about equal rights to seek opportunities for both sexes, rather than “gender equality”.

    And it’s not the same thing actually, as “gender equality” is a discriminatory term by itself, as there are physical and character differences between the two. This leads to discrimination in some places (say female candidates are sometimes given priority in tech to keep the “gender balance” but not because they’re more competent, vice versa might be present in, say, teaching as there many female teachers). What I would want that to become – candidate’s gender shouldn’t be considered as a criteria at all, and everything would be based on the competence and skills.

    This is exactly the reason why I would choose “somewhat important” case rather than “very important” if the question is formulated in this way.

  4. Where is the data for the other answer options? I would expect at least some people to have opinions less favorable to gender equality than “somewhat important”. Without the other answers it’s almost impossible to say anything meaningful about this. For all I know the opposing options could have double the votes compared to the supporting options.

    Edit: For clarification, I fully support equal rights for everyone but I don’t support incomplete statistics, especially when it could be misleading.

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