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Gender equality
Do you agree or disagree with the following statements?
Total agree | Total dis-agree | Strong-ly agree | Agree | Dis-agree | Strong-ly dis-agree | Don’t know | Men agree | Men dis-agree | Women agree | Women dis-agree | |||
Gender equality, meaning that men and women are equal, has come far enough already | 38% | 53% | 10% | 28% | 35% | 18% | 8% | 51% | 39% | 26% | 68% | ||
Gender equality has already been mostly achieved | 41% | 52% | 8% | 33% | 37% | 15% | 7% | 53% | 39% | 30% | 64% | ||
Work to achieve gender equality today benefits mostly well-to-do people | 39% | 42% | 7% | 32% | 32% | 10% | 18% | 45% | 38% | 35% | 46% | ||
There should be laws that require equal salaries for men and women in the same position | 78% | 14% | 37% | 41% | 9% | 5% | 7% | 71% | 21% | 85% | 8% | ||
Although there has been significant progress on gender equality there is still a long way to go | 71% | 21% | 26% | 45% | 16% | 5% | 8% | 61% | 30% | 80% | 13% |
There was very strong agreement with the statements “there should be laws that require equal salaries for men and women in the same position” (78%) and “Although there has been significant progress on gender equality there is still a long way to go” (71%).
More than half of the men agree that gender equality has mostly been achieved and that gender equality . . . has come far enough but around two thirds of women disagree.

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