Voting Survey: Afterthoughts on Gender Inequality Data

 Alex Gross

Mr. Roddy

IHSS
12 November 2020

Voting Survey: Afterthoughts on Gender Inequality Data

For this blog I want to look into more about the results that we got for the questions about gender inequality. The question I want to look at is “Is the continued rise of women’s influence in popular culture, government, and business a positive thing or will it have negative impacts?” I chose to look into this question because there were a few people who said that they believe female influence on society, business, etc, is negative and I didn’t think that anyone would be able to say that. Out of the 125 responses 10 people said that they think women having this influence in society is a negative thing. While I didn’t see any trends in race, whether or not people plan on voting, education level, or party affiliation in relation to this question, I did see trends in age and gender which I would’ve expected. It is very important that while 54% of the survey takers identified as female, only 20% of the people who responded to this question saying that female influence is negative, listed their gender as female. This shows that people who don’t identify as female, which in this case were mostly all men, made up a strong majority of the people who think female influence is negative. I also think it is interesting that when looking at age and this question, that most of the people who said female influence is negative were in the older range of our respondents (36+). This is an excellent display of how some “old fashioned” opinions that used to be the norm can stick with the older generations. Also this fact that not many of the respondents who said female influence is negative were young shows that the opposite happened to our generation, and that some of these sexist opinions are beginning to come to a halt and no longer be seen as acceptable.


I think that the process of giving out and having people take this survey went very well. There were in my mind four stages: formulating questions & the survey, perfecting the survey, distributing it, and analyzing results. The formulation process went extremely well in my opinion because we did background research on our topics individually. The fact that we presented on our topics to the group gave them knowledge about them and helped with the process of editing and deciding which were the best questions. The distribution of the survey was well planned and this shows because we definitely got a more diverse group of respondents than I would’ve originally thought. Finally I think writing a blog analyzing the results, and having access to the results rather than just having a teacher report back on what respondents said, allowed for very deep analysis and for students to be curious in our own ways about each question and detail.

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