I used survey monkey to design and administer my survey. My
survey link is https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/J3DGKK8. The design of my survey
is as follows:
1) Which category below includes your age? - various choices
2) What is your gender? - male; female
3) What is your approximate average household income? - various choices
4) How relevant is the Feminist movement today? - Extremely
relevant; Very relevant; Moderately relevant; Slightly relevant; Not relevant
at all
5) In your experience, are women given equal opportunities
and salaries in the workplace? - Frequently; Sometimes; Never
6) In your experience, are women discriminated against in
daily life? - Frequently; Sometimes; Never
7) In your home, what is the balance of responsibility for
household management (includes cleaning, cooking, childcare) - Women perform
the majority of the household management; Men perform the majority of the
household management; Women and men perform equal amounts of the household
management
8) What industry would you pick as the least equitable in their treatment of females workers? - Military; Government; Construction;
Healthcare; Financial; Services; Education
9) What is the highest level of job do you think it most
possible for women to aspire to and achieve today? - Administrative; Line
worker; Supervisor; Mid-level management; Corporate level management
10) Choose the phrase you would use to describe women’s
intelligence. - Women are better at creative subjects in general rather than
mathematical and scientific subjects; Women are just as intelligent as men in
all subjects and areas- depends on the person; Women are better at mathematical
and scientific subjects in general than creative subjects
My prediction was that the majority of women would think
that feminism is still relevant today and that the issues that feminism tries
to deal with and solve are crucial issues for the modern world. I thought that
although a portion of the men taking the survey may find some feminist issues
as relevant today, the majority of the men will find the issues to be irrelevant
and find the feminist cause to be outdated.
So far the data from the survey is supporting my theories.
On average, the women who took the survey responded in a way that supports my
hypothesis. Women more often responded that women are not treated equally today
and that there is still discrimination against women taking place. They all
felt that women do all the household management and that women are equally
intelligent. Men did not all answer that feminism is not relevant, but they did
not find it as relevant as women so far. The older they were, the more they
thought that feminism was not relevant, that women were paid equitably, and
that they should not aspire to jobs higher than supervisor or middle
management. Younger men tended to think that women are the same intelligence
wise. So far the data shows the construction industry is the one most likely
where women are not treated as equals. The reason would seem to be that this is
a traditionally male industry and requires strength and endurance. Most people
believe men are better at those things.
I continue to believe that there is a need for
the Feminist movement today. A large portion of men and even some women believe
that women should not aspire to Corporate level jobs. A majority of the respondents
think that women are frequently treated equally on the job. Most people
responded that women are discriminated against only sometimes. The reality is
that women are still paid less than men and are given a much smaller portion of
the Corporate level jobs than men. People still believe they have different
brain capacity than men. A resounding majority believe that women handle most
of the cooking, cleaning and child care. The data shows that equality is far
from present and that there is indeed a fairly long way to go to reach it. Some men and even some women do not even want true equality of men and women.
There needs to continue to be effort to bring about social change to alter
these mindsets that have been in effect for so long.
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