Views on how far the country has come on gender equality differ widely by gender and by party, 2020 Source: Pew Research Center

Majority of Americans say gender equality is very important, whether they identify as feminists or not, 2020 Source: Pew Research Center

Gender Gap in Poverty Rates over a Lifetime Percentage of People Living in Poverty Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Poverty Rates by Age and Sex, 2015 Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Larger shares of men than women say men have more influence in decisions about household finances, 2019 Source: Pew Research Center

Source: Pew Research center

In many countries, sizable shares say men have more influence than women in decisions about household finances, 2019 Source: Pew Research Center

Source: Pew Research Center

Source: Pew Research Center

Majorities think men and women have about the same influence in making important family decisions, 2019. Source: Pew Research Center

Women are more likely than men to point to societal factors when it comes to gender differences Source: Pew Research Center

Do you think our culture teaches women to speak up about harassment and assault, without fear of the consequences on their own lives? Most voters do not think our culture teaches women to speak up without fear of consequences on their own lives. Source: "The Immediate, Short-term, and Long-term Effects of the Kavanaugh Hearings on the Electorate." Results from a National Survey of Voters. PerryUndem, April 15, 2019

Do you think our culture teaches women to speak up about harassment and assault, without fear of the consequences on their own lives? Women across the board and young voters are among the most likely to think our culture does not teach women to speak up without fear. Source: "The Immediate, Short-term, and Long-term Effects of the Kavanaugh Hearings on the Electorate." Results from a National Survey of Voters. PerryUndem, April 15, 2019

Gender Equality-In developing countries, 1 in 3 girls is married by the time she turns 18. That's 14 million girls per year, and nearly 39,000 girls daily--Pregnancy and childbirth is the leading cause of death of 15-19 year-old girls in the developing world--Girls are 3x more likely to be malnourished than boys--65 million girls are missing from primary and secondary school--[Click on this image to find a short video and analysis exploring the causes of the distorted sex ratio in India]

Source: PRRI / MTV 2017 National Youth Survey

Log Odds of Respondents Indicating that Women (Rather Than Men) Have More Communion, Agency, Competence, or Intelligence. Source: Eagly, A. H., Nater, C., Miller, D. I., Kaufmann, M., & Sczesny, S. (2019, July 18). Gender Stereotypes Have Changed: A Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis of U.S. Public Opinion Polls From 1946 to 2018. American Psychologist. Advance online publication.

"Boys are trained to externalize our pain, when something bad has happened to us, we need to do something bad to someone else, avenge the humiliation we've suffered, the shame we've experienced." ~ Jackson Katz

"We have a duty to have those conversations, and for men to initiate them. I know women are tired of having to walk men through this. We can have these conversations amongst each other, not looking for forgiveness, looking to re-route that behaviour." ~ Pope Lonergan

As a 2019 article from The Atlantic points out, sociologist Raewyn Connell and others have theorized that "common masculine ideals such as social respect, physical strength, and sexual potency become problematic when they set unattainable standards. Falling short can make boys and men insecure and anxious, which might prompt them to use force in order to feel, and be seen as, dominant and in control...

If you read a scifi tale about a plague and it had dudes going "I won't WEAR a MASK because it THREATENS my MASCULINITY" you would assume the author were a very intense feminist trying to make some kind of hamfisted point but actually yeah there are men literally doing this. ~ @eevee