Almost A Third Of Gen Z Men Say Women Should Always Obey Their Husbands

Days earlier International Women’s Day (Sunday, 8 March), King’s College London has published a report that recovered Gen Z men, born between 1997 and 2012, are astir apt to accidental women should ever obey their husbands. 

Almost a 3rd (31%) of Gen Z Men surveyed said they felt that way.

That’s implicit doubly arsenic overmuch arsenic Baby Boomer men (born from 1946-1964), who were slightest apt to explicit the sentiment astatine 13%. 

And for Boomer women, that fig plummeted to 6%. 

What percent of each procreation said women should ever obey their husbands? 

In this research, which progressive 23,000 radical from 29 countries, including the UK, US, Brazil, and Australia, the breakdown was arsenic follows: 

1. Baby Boomers (1946-64)
   Men: 13%, Women: 6%
2. Gen X (1965-1980)
   Men: 21%, Women 13%
3. Millennials (1980-1997) 
   Men: 29%, Women 19%
4. Gen Z (1997-2012) 
   Men: 31%, Women 18%.

Interestingly, Millennial women look somewhat much apt (1%) than their Gen Z counterparts to hold with the statement. Gen Z women were the lone radical successful the survey that disagreed much with it than their gender’s anterior generation.

This inclination held existent passim the results

Gen Z men were besides doubly arsenic apt arsenic Boomer men (24% vs 12%) to accidental a pistillate shouldn’t look excessively autarkic oregon self-sufficient. 

59% of Gen Z men accidental their sex is asked to bash excessively overmuch for equality compared to 45% of Boomer men. 

57% of Gen Z men said we’d gone truthful acold to beforehand women’s rights, we’ve go sexist towards men; 42% of Boomer men agreed.

And 21% of Gen Z men said “real women” ne'er initiated sex, vs 7% of Boomer men. 

In each of these, women were importantly little apt to hold with the statements.

This is “deeply concerning”

“It is profoundly concerning to spot accepted sex norms persisting today,” Professor Heejung Chung, manager of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership astatine King’s Business School, said.

“Our information reveals a striking spread betwixt people’s idiosyncratic views, which are acold much progressive, and what they ideate nine demands of them.

“This spread is peculiarly pronounced among Gen Z men, who not lone look to consciousness aggravated unit to conform to rigid masculine ideals, but successful immoderate cases look to besides expect women to retreat to much accepted ways of being.” 

And the Hon Julia Gillard AC, Chair of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership, King’s Business School, added, “It is troubling to spot that attitudes towards sex equality are not much positive, peculiarly among young men. Not lone are galore Gen Z men putting limiting expectations connected women, they are besides trapping themselves wrong restrictive sex norms.

“We indispensable proceed to bash much to dispel the thought of a zero-sum crippled successful which women are the lone beneficiaries of a gender-equal world... As a nine we request to defy the unit to spell backwards.”

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