{"id":2361,"date":"2016-01-22T10:59:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T10:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2361"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:01","slug":"only-7-of-people-describe-themselves-as-feminists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2016\/01\/22\/only-7-of-people-describe-themselves-as-feminists\/","title":{"rendered":"Only 7% of people describe themselves as feminists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">According to the results from the 2016 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fawcettsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Sex-Equality-State-of-the-Nation-2016-FINAL.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">Fawcett society state of the nation report <\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0only 4% men\u00a0and 9% women polled labelled themselves as feminists.\u00a0 When asked to describe what the word meant to them a shocking 26% of the words used were negative e.g. irrelevant, bitchy, while 22% used positive terms such as strong-willed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">This was based on market research by Survation (<a href=\"http:\/\/survation.com\/\">http:\/\/survation.com\/ )<\/a> who polled 8,165 UK residents aged 18+ between 30th <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">November and 3<sup><span style=\"font-size: small\">rd<\/span><\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"> December 2015.\u00a0 The survey was <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">conducted via\u00a0online panel.\u00a0 Other topics covered include attitudes towards gender equality and perceptions of gender identity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the results from the 2016 Fawcett society state of the nation report \u00a0only 4% men\u00a0and 9% women polled labelled themselves as feminists.\u00a0 When asked to describe what the word meant to them a shocking 26% of the words used were negative e.g. irrelevant, bitchy, while 22% used positive terms such as strong-willed. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[52,243,93,99],"class_list":["post-2361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociology","tag-feminism","tag-sociology","tag-united-kingdom","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2362,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions\/2362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}