Young Women And The Rise Of Antifeminism: 10 Things To Know

In a recent poll, opinions on gender equality were gathered from people in around 32 different nations, including India, the United States, Chile, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, and Belgium. Among them, nearly half think that women's rights and the fight for equality have gone too far.

According to a study of 22,500 adults aged 16 to 74 by the Global Institute of Women's Leadership at King's College London and Ipsos UK, 41 percent of women and 55 percent of men worldwide believe that women have overstepped their bounds in their quest for equality. These figures comprised 52 percent of Gen Z members, 40 percent of baby boomers, 53 percent of millennials, and roughly 46 percent of members of Gen X.

Young People And The Rise Of Antifeminism: 10 Things To Know

• New research has found that the majority of young people believe women’s rights have already gone far enough.
• They discovered that of all the respondents, 52 percent of Gen Z and 53 percent of Millennials believed that we had advanced gender equality to the point that we were now discriminating against men. However, fewer than half of the Gen Z respondents to the survey stated they identified as feminists.
• Almost 15 percent of Indian respondents to the survey, who were also asked about their views on gender disparity, claimed that it didn't really exist.
• However, 26 percent of the people from India also claimed that they confronted people in situations of sexual harassment and about 30% discussed gender discrimination in the workplace with their employers.
• Alison Phipps, feminist scholar and Professor of Sociology at Newcastle University stated they received 1,000 responses from Britain, and across the total sample, Britain was among the most supportive of gender equality.
• In Britain, 38 percent of respondents believed things had gone 'far enough', and nobody said things had gone 'too far'.

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• She argued that despite efforts to advance reproductive rights, the impact of the cost of living crisis on women, online harassment and violence, and the outpouring of prejudice towards trans women in particular, things have not progressed nearly far enough.
• According to Phipps, and, in some ways, we are actually moving backward.
• The research also claimed that many traditional wives claim that by pushing women to enter the workforce in the first place, feminism really made things worse for women and that becoming a traditional wife is actually better for women. The crisis of masculinity affects young males who are anti-feminist.
• The research further added men have been taught (rightly) since the #MeToo movement in 2018 that women experience a lot of sexual harassment and violence, but there is still no clear guide for what it means to be a young man in the modern world. a clever means of "cheating" the capitalist system and avoiding unappreciated, low-paying employment.