As many as 85.6 percent of respondents to a recent government survey think men and women should share the workload either at the workplace or the home, the Research, Development and Evaluation Commission’s (RDEC) latest survey on gender equality found.
On gender roles, 80 percent of respondents said they did not agree that “the husband is the head of the household, and the wife should do her best to obey her husband,” the RDEC-conducted survey showed.
The results also show that 68.4 percent of respondents disagreed with the notion that “every woman should have at least one male child to continue the family line,” and 60.2 percent disagreed with the statement that “men should bear the responsibility of making money to support their families, while women’s work is handling household chores and caring for the family.”
Generally speaking, 53.5 percent of those surveyed think that at present, men hold a higher social status than women in Taiwan, while 31.6 percent believe Taiwan has achieved gender equality. Only 9 percent think women’s social status is higher than men’s, according to the poll.
On sexual harassment and violence, 98.2 percent of those polled said they had not suffered physical sexual harassment over the past year, and 91.6 percent reported they had not suffered verbal sexual harassment during the same period.
The survey also found that 72 percent of respondents were aware that they can call 113 to seek help if they fall victim to domestic violence or sexual assault. Meanwhile, 77.2 percent said that overall, gender equality exists in the workplace.
The survey was conducted on July 27 and 28 questioned 1,091 adults. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.97 percentage points.
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