Gender Turn Out and Gender Equality

 Sabrina Gubbels-Wingo

Mr. Roddy

IHSS

14 November 2020

Comparing Gender Turnout and Gender Equality

The two aspects of data I chose to compare are the gender turn out and gender equality. Majority of the people who filled out the form were women at 54% with 40.5% being men and 5.5% representing the rest of the genders (gender neutral, agender, gender fluid, and others not listed on the survey.).  The first question was: Do you think men and women are treated equally in the workplace? Overall the answers were all represented well with the largest outstanding answer being that there is a lot of inequality at 44.8%. The next most popular answer was that there was little in equality at 30.4%. The remaining 24.8% make up the extremes of both (there is no inequality and in every capacity, there is inequality.). I think the reason the majority was that there is a lot of inequality in the workplace was because the majority of the people who filled out the survey were women and generally, that is who the inequality is targeted towards. I think it is also important to acknowledge that many different people work in many different industries so some may face more or less inequality than others. This could have been why we got more of a variety of answers. The next question is: Is the continued rise of women’s influence in popular culture, government, and business a positive thing or will it have negative impacts? The overwhelming majority, at 77.6%, believe it to be a positive thing while 14.4% were neutral and 10.24% believed it negative. Again here I think we see the majority of women a bit, but it is hard to make assumptions because the majority is so overwhelming that I think the negative answers have to do more with personal opinions rather than gender and such. The finale question is: Should women have to pay more than men for comparable products (pink tax)? This one also had an overwhelming majority, of 79.2%, stating no, they do not believe in the pink tax. With the remaining 20.8% ranging from yes to neutral, to only some products. Again I think the women majority played a role in this and that is the case for all of these questions because most of them pertain specifically to them. I think possibly people who might not know what the pink tax is or “comparable products” might have been the ones to go more neutral. 


Overall I think that the process went about as well as it could have considering we are in the middle of a pandemic. I think that we could have done better dispersing it to different types of people because I think we could use a little more variety, however, it is understandable why it was not as the Houston area tends to be more democratic than republican. I would have made some changes in the questions as I think important issues that had a lot to do with this election were not discussed, abortion being one of them. I think this could have been added to the gender equality section, maybe replacing the question about women’s influence. I do think that the total composition of questions for the survey were well selected for this time. 

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