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全球四分之一的人认为女性应待在家中

2010-03-09来源:和谐英语

Women head governments, run companies and comprise about half the world's workforce, but a global poll shows that one in four people, most of them young, believe a woman's place is in the home.

The survey of over 24,000 adults in 23 countries, conducted by Reuters/Ipsos and released on the eve of International Women's Day, showed that people from India (54 percent), Turkey (52 percent), Japan (48 percent), China, Russia, Hungary (34 percent each) and South Korea (33 percent) were most likely to agree that women should not work.

And, perhaps surprisingly, people aged between 18 and 34 years are most likely to hold that view, not those from the older, and more traditional, generation.

However, the majority, or 74 percent, of those polled believe a woman's place is certainly not at home.

"Over the past century, women, collectively, have made great gains not only in terms of societal participation - from politics to the workplace to sports and the media and to intellectual pursuit - but there are still barriers to many," said John Wright, senior vice president of market research company Ipsos.

"This poll has a fundamental expression embraced by a full majority that women, individually or otherwise, should have the ability to choose to do what and where they believe they can make their greatest contribution," he said.

In countries where most people believed women should stay at home, or where the majority held the opposite view, there was little difference between the sexes, the survey showed. For example, in India, the country where more than half of those polled said women should stay home, an almost equal number of men and women held this view.

The following results table from the survey conducted between November and January begins with the countries where citizens are most likely to agree that "a women's place is in the home." All figures are percentages.

"A woman's place is in the home"

  Agree Disagree
India 5446 
 Turkey  5248 
Japan   48 52
China  34 66 
Russia   34 66
Hungary  3466
South Korea  3367
 Czech Republic  28 72
Australia  25 75 
United States  2575
 Great Britain 2278
 Netherlands 2080
 Canada 2080
 Italy 19 81 
 Poland 1882
Belgium  1684
 Germany 14 86 
 Spain 1288
 Brazil 1090
 Sweden 1090
 Mexico 9 91
 France 9 91
 Argentina 9

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