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Figure 5 Support for gender equality in university education, business executives and political leaders and women’s equal right to employment by region, 2004-2009 Per cent 100 90 University education 80 Business executives
70 60
Political leaders
50
Right to a job
40 30 20 10
Eastern Europe Africa
Asia
Latin America and the Caribbean
Japan United States of America Australia France Spain Great Britain Italy Finland Germany Canada Netherlands Switzerland Norway Andorra Sweden
Argentina Brazil Mexico Trinidad and Tobago Uruguay Peru
Russian Federation Romania Ukraine Republic of Moldova Bulgaria Poland Serbia Slovenia
Jordan Iran (Islamic Republic of) Malaysia Georgia India Turkey Indonesia Reppublic of Korea Viet Nam China Thailand Cyprus
Egypt Mali Ghana Burkina Faso Morocco South Africa
0
Western Europe and other developed countries
Source: World Values Surveys 2004-2009 data (downloaded and analysed on 20 August 2013). Note: Support for gender equality is measured as the proportion of respondents who disagree with the following statements: (a) “a university education is more important for a boy than for a girl”; (b) “on the whole, men make better business executives than women do”; (c) “on the whole, men make better political leaders than women do”; and (d) “when jobs are scarce, men should have more right to a job than women”.
104. The regional and development gaps in gender values have been getting smaller, as countries in Western Europe and wealthy non-OECD countries have already reached a high degree of social consensus while countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as countries in Eastern Europe, are catching up. 105. Some countries showed no significant change in support for gender equality values. These countries are in all regions, and they vary depending on the issue in question. No progress was observed for one eighth of countries (3 out of 25 with available data) with regard to tertiary education; a quarter of countries (6 out of 25) with regard to political leadership; and a third of countries (8 out of 25) with regard to access to the job market.
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