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By: Julia Hanigk
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There is still a lot to be done for equality.
A survey has now shown that significantly more young people equate care work with a threat to masculinity.
Hamburg - In view of International Women's Day, the market research company Ipsos and the Global Institute for Women's Leadership at King's College London examined gender relations and gender inclusion worldwide.
Some of the results for younger generations are surprising.
Positive development in the perception of equality
For now, there is good news for Germany: the study basically comes to the conclusion that perceptions of gender equality in Germany are developing positively.
Two out of three Germans say that it is not relevant to them whether a man or a woman holds a management position - for example in a company (67 percent with no preference), but also within politics (65 percent with no preference).
A recent Indeed survey also found that every second woman still believes that she has worse career prospects in her job than a man.
Younger generations think less progressively than was always assumed
However, the results that the study reveals when comparing generations are striking.
They clearly contradict the common cliché that younger people are definitely more progressive when it comes to understanding roles.
Overall, only one in five Germans agrees that a man is not really a man if he looks after the children at home.
However, the age distribution among those who agreed shows a large gap.
Only eight percent of baby boomers agree with this view.
In the following Generation X, born between 1966 and 1980, the figure is already a fifth (18 percent).
Among Millennials it is more than a third, 35 percent to be precise.
According to social scientists from the US opinion research institute Pew Research Center, this includes all people born between 1981 and 1996.
The much-criticized Gen Z is at least slowing down this trend somewhat.
Almost exactly a quarter (26 percent) of people born between 1997 and 2012 see masculinity threatened by care work.
The general figures when it comes to care work are clear: women still do 43.8 percent more unpaid work than men.
This so-called “care work” includes household work, food preparation, and caring for children and adult family members.
Symbolic image: Young father with six-month-old son.
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Globally, baby boomers are also more progressive than Millennials and Gen Z
This trend is also reflected outside of Germany.
Globally, Gen Z and Millennials are also the most likely to fear a loss of masculinity.
At the same time, these generational groups also find in the global analysis that emancipation has already progressed far enough.
57 percent of Generation Z see this, 59 percent of Millennials and 43 percent of Boomers.
Representative, worldwide study
The study on the current status of equality was published under the name “International Women's Day 2024. Global attitudes towards women's leadership” and was carried out online and with interviews between December 22nd, 2023 and January 5th, 2024.
A total of 24,269 people aged 16 to 74 took part.
31 countries were included.
This is therefore a representative study.
(jh)