The Gen Z’s backlash against gender equality

Last month Ipsos published their International Women’s Day survey, which unearthed some interesting statistics about younger generations’ views on gender equality in 31 countries. For a generation often designated as ‘woke’, Generation Z seems to hold some pretty conservative values on the topic.

• For example, over half of Gen Z and Millennials agree with the statement: “when it comes to giving women equal rights with men, things have gone far enough in my country” (57% Gen Z, 60%, of Millennials) compared with two in five Baby boomers (43%).” 
• Additionally, Gen Z and Millennials are more likely to agree that “a man who stays home to look after his children is less of a man” (25%, 27% respectively) than Gen X (20%) and Baby Boomers (11%).
• But gender plays a big role in the respondents answers as well; asked whether “we have gone so far in promoting women’s equality that we are discriminating against men”, 60% of Gen Z men agreed, compared to 40% of Gen Z women.

This backlash against progressives comes as no surprise. Recently we wrote a more extensive article on the cultural and societal shift towards conservatism, and some of its causes.