Poll: 41 percent of Filipinos see gender equality in the Philippines
March 8, 2017 | 6:57pm
Based on a 2016 Pulse Asia Survey, 41 percent of Filipinos believe there is gender equality in the country.
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MANILA, Philippines — More Filipinos disagree that most women are at a disadvantage in Philippine society while close to 95 percent agree that women should fight for their rights, a recent Pulse Asia survey suggests.
According to the survey, 41 percent of Filipinos believe that women in the Philippines are not disdvantaged against 33 percent of respondents who believe otherwise.
A total of 26 percent of respondents, meanwhile, could not say either way.
Pulse Asia conducted the survey on women's rights and status in the Philippines from December 6 to 11, 2016 among 1,200 respondents nationwide with a ± 3% error margin at a 95% confidence level.
More in Luzon, Visayas believe women not on equal footing with men
Close to half of respondents in Metro Manila (48 percent) and in Mindanao (50 percent) said they believed women are not disadvantaged. Respondents in the rest of Luzon (40 percent) and the Visayas (42 percent) were more inclined to believe that women are at a disadvantage.
Respondents who had at least a vocational school diploma (48 percent) or were college level (48 percent) were more inclined to believe that there is gender equality in the Philippines than those with just high school education (29 percent).
About 36 percent of female respondents said women are disadvantaged in society against 30 percent of men who did.
Meanwhile, almost all respondents — 94 percent — believe that a woman has the right to fight for her rights while 2 percent disagrees.
Of those surveyed, 93 percent of men believe it is right for women to fight for their rights against 95 percent of female respondents who felt the same way.
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