RESULTS
of 1st wave of survey regarding gender bias among Ukrainian teens
(13-19 years)
January-February 2021
INTRODUCTION:
the Google forms questionnaire
KEY INSIGHTS
INSIGHT 1: Girls are more openly react to invitations to gender bias discussions
INSIGHT 2: Sexism, ageism and lookism are 3 predominant types of discrimination Ukraininan teens face.
INSIGHT 3: Teens of both genders are irritated by sexism towards both genders
INSIGHT 4: Gender issues indifferent teens are not passive and act as community activist (63% are ready to move further in that)
INSIGHT 5: Teens are open for and require knowledge to support their intention to eliminate bias
92,4% of teens know what gender bias is and 66,3% of the group faced stereotypes
Yes
No
Not sure
Yes
No
Not sure
Do you know about gender stereotypes?
Have you ever faced gender stereotypes?
How do you think, what is the key reason for stereotypes?
Lack of education on the issue
Traditions and historical roots
Conformism
Lack of critical thinking (accepting things the way they are)
Other/difficult to anwer
71.7% of Ukrainian teens connects lack of knowledge and gender inequality and discrimination
Do you think that ignorance can be a source of gender inequality and discrimination?
Yes
No
Not sure
Who in your environment is more inclined towards gender stereotyped thinking?
Parents
Teachers
Grandparents
Peers
Nobody
Difficult to anwer
Social media influencers
47,2% of teens questioned during the survey say they faced discrimination
Have you ever faced discrimination (against you)?
Yes
No
Not sure
Only 21,4% of teens confess being a source of discrimination themselves
Have you discriminated against someone (perhaps unintentionally)?
Yes
No
Not sure
Which types of discrimination have you ever encountered (directly or indirectly)
Sexism
Racism
Ageism
Homophobia
Colourism
Lookism
Ableism
Xenophobia
Other
Not sure
75% consider that our society gets more tolerants and 58,2% are confident that the progress in the human rights area is important
Yes
No
Not sure
Yes
No
Not sure
Do you think that society is gradually moving towards greater tolerance?
Do you think progress in this area is important?
Do you personally do anything thing to eliminate or combat discrimination and increase tolerance in society?
Yes
No
“YES” responds include:
63% of teens demonstrated (unconscious) intention to proceed their progress on gender activism path
If your answers touch us and help us better talk about the problem of gender stereotypes, would you agree to use your quotes?
Yes
No
Not sure
How would you prefer to learn more on bias
recognition and elimination tools?
If your answers touch us and help us better talk about the problem of gender stereotypes, would you agree to use your quotes?
At School
At open lectures, webinars, Youtube video
Through quests, games, lectures
At home from parents
Though all listed above
Difficult to respond
���THE MOST COMMON
GENDER BIAS
UKRAINIAN TEENS FACE
You're a girl and boys don’t cry are most wide-spread gender stereotypes the research participants face.
"The woman looks after the children, the man works."
"Pants are not for women."
"Women should not show negative emotions. "
"Men can't cry. "
"Women are weaker than men."
"Have not given birth to children under 25 - not a woman and no one will need you."
"Feminists = lesbians."
“How were you dressed that day? You provoked him.
”A girl who has sexual experience is a slut. A guy is macho.
"Girls, March 8 will be a free form - cute dresses, no pants, I'll send home to change."
"March 8 - a holiday of femininity, feminists twist everything, sit back and keep quiet because with such views you will not find a guy."
The original quotes
"Using the term "businesswoman" as an offensive term."
"Don't use femininities when someone needs them."
"There are only two genders, do not argue because I am a biology teacher, and I know better."
When a little girl complains about being bullied by boys, she is told that they show her admiration in such a way.
"A man beats - she is to blame, she has to put up with it all because you are a woman, how else? "
"The guy with the piercing / with coloured hair/gay / shows emotions - not a "real man".
"Don't dye your hair. You’re a boy."
"Boys can't love."
"Girls must have a baby."
"Boys don't cry."
"Boys don't dye their hair" and so on.
"A physics teacher claims that technical specialities are for boys and humanities are for girls."
"The foreign literature teacher says that any girl’s primary goal is to be a wife and a mother, and all those who disagree it now will understand this later."
"You are a man. You must always give in to a woman."
"Boys can't wear pink."
"You're a girl; you have to go dancing, not martial arts."
"Female friendship does not exist."
"Girls are weaker than boys."
"Girls gossip more than boys."
"Girls are more emotional than guys."
"Girls should wear dresses, and everything else is boyish clothes."
"If you are a guy, you are a priori the best; girls are cowardly."
"Girls have to shave their legs, arms and other places."
"If a girl with short hair and not in girlish clothes, she is not a traditional orientation or a feminist man-hating person."
"If a guy wears a skirt, he is stupid or gay."
"Boys do not have to play with girls' toys and vice versa."
"Only guys are interested in technology."
The list is endless
QUESTIONS?
i.rubis@biasless.world