Blog Voting Survey

 Jayla Balderas 

Mr.Roddy

IHSS 

15 November 2020

                                                   Gender Vs. Issues in Gender Inequality 

For the baseline question, I choose Gender and will be comparing this data with the section of questions that discuss the topic of Issues in Gender Inequality. Starting off with the data from the Gender baseline question. According to the survey 68 people who took it, identified as female while 51 identified as male. Leaving 7 people who categorized themselves as the following, nonbinary, agender, genderfluid, gender-neutral, and others. 126 people answered this gender question, and we had 128 responses for the entire survey. 

With the section that asked questions on Gender Inequality we had three questions and each got only 125 responses. Meaning if we compare this number to the total responses we received which were 128, we can say 3 people decided to skip over this section and we assume that 1 out of those 3 people who answered the Gender baseline Question didn’t partake in answering this section. 

Do you think men and women are treated equally in the workplace? This would be the first question on the topic of Issues In Gender Inequality. For the ones who responded they had four options to choose from. 56 people said yes there was inequality, 18 said in every capacity there is inequality. 13 people said no inequality, and 38 said little inequality. I will be assuming that most if not all of the females have a job, they will be part of  56 people saying yes to inequality. If you also have a good understanding of pay wage gaps between genders you might have fallen into two categories that said yes or in every capacity there is inequality. Which would mean that you are at least aware, so if you put together the response for both of those answers you will get 74 people that agree there is inequality.  If we have 68 females which could mean 6 of those people could have fallen into the other categories of gender. That would be assuming that all females said yes to inequality.

 It of course depends on what career you have, a few women may have never experienced inequality so that may not be the case. If you combine the response with the other two answers that said here is little to no inequality and no inequality that totally would be 51, which is also the number of men that took the survey. Of course, we also could have men who agreed that there was inequality and fallen into the category of 74 who agreed. 

Are the continued rise of women’s influence in popular culture, government, and business a positive thing or will it have negative impacts? For these questions you had four responses you could give which include the following; 97 people say it will have a positive effect. 10 say it will have negative effects and 18 people have no idea how it will impact society.  Once again I will be assuming that women believe their impact in business and government will have a good impact on society. 

Which would mean if 68 are female and we had 97 people say positive impact, 29 responses are up in the air. I would like to believe the 7 people who fell into the other gender categories agreed with a positive impact if you assume those 7 people are part of the 97 makings the 29 unknown responses become 22. The only other gender included in the survey would be men meaning 22 men agreed that women would have a positive impact. If you add two responses that said they didn’t know, or it will have a negative effect on society that a number of responses will be 28, if you add the  22 men who said the positive impact that number we become 50. With that, I think it's safe to say that the men were pretty split in between. 

Should Women have to pay more for comparable products (Pink Tax)? For this question, 99 people said no to having to pay more. 4 said that women should pay more, 13 said it depends on the product, and 9 had no opinion. If we say 68 women agree in themselves having to pay for more feminine products, that will leave 31 responses unknown. Those 31 could be a mixture of men and people who identify themselves as 7 other genders offered in the survey. If you combine the three other responses you could have given responses to meaning the 13(It depends),4 (yes), and 9 ( no opinion). That number would come out to 26. 

Another possibility would be if we said 31 responses were unknown and if you include the 7 who identify as those other genders to that 31. This number would drop to 24, we could assume that the last 24 unknown that fit into 99 who said women should not have to pay more for products will be men. If you add that 24 men to 26 who said offered different responses then agreeing, this total would come out to 50. In the very beginning, I said 126 people answered the gender question, but 125 answered this question. We could assume if 51 men took the survey and I am assuming 50 men answered this question, that would mean the one person who didn’t answer this question would be male. 

For the evaluating process, I believe this survey went very well. Even considering the fact it was mentioned briefly the school hadn’t done a survey like this in a few years. Instead, they had gone out and asked people these questions in person. The survey also received a lot more responses than I thought it would. It was very interesting to see how split the pie chart was for a few of the questions.