Voting Survey Blog- Gender identity and Gender issues; Talulah

 For this project, I decided to look at gender and issues with gender equality, and my thought process going into this is that women will most likely think there are more issues with gender inequality, while men will think that there are no issues. Just looking at the first 30 responses, 14 out of the 15 women's responses were that there is gender inequality while 9 out of 15 men said there was little to no inequality. For the second question (is the influence of powerful women positive or negative), I believe everyone’s answer will either be neutral or positive, because if it’s not this it may seem sexist. After looking at all of the answers every man and woman said it was either positive or they didn’t know the impact it has on society, the only ones that said it was negative were people identifying as agender or other, but when I looked at their later responses they seemed like trolls so I’m not including them in my research. For the last question about pink tax and whether women should have to pay for it, all of the women said no, and the man said no and I have no opinion, and one of them said it depends on the product. 

All of my findings I had already predicted to be the same as they were, but I wanted to see if this research was the same throughout America, or if it was unique to the specific group we chose. I looked at a similar survey given by time magazine, and the response was that 86% of women believe that female workers are paid less while only 62% of men believed this. This lines up with our data as well. My obvious thought process on why men are less likely to believe in issues like gender inequality is that they don’t face these issues head-on, while women do, so they understand the obvious biases towards men. Another factor I noticed played into the men's responses, was their age. I noticed that those who put there was little to no inequality, 8 of them were on the younger side of the spectrum, well only one of the older man chose there was little to no inequality. Obviously, there were less old men who took the survey, at least in the first 30 people, but I did think that older men would have a more biased view on gender inequality because it is a trend for men that are older to believe women are less than them, or you have a biased view on gender equality. That sums up my findings for this survey, nothing came as a large sock to me and most of my evidence lined up with other larger research done in the US.

I think overall our survey was a success, and I think we can and will continue to learn a lot just from the data. The main thing I believe we could fix was how we got it out. One of our biggest mistakes, I believe, was putting it onto social media, that’s how we ended up with a lot of trolls and people who were under the voting age. If we were to do this again I think it would be better if we handed this out individually, or if Covid was over we could go out and ask people on the streets. The second biggest thing I think we could’ve changed was the amount of time that we put it out for, we got 127 responses which is still a lot, but the more responses the better, but we didn’t really give people that much time to actually take it. With more people, we could have a better understanding and more accurate numbers for our data. This was a great experience and an enjoyable yet informative project, and I would love to do this again but maybe to take it to the streets instead of an online survey.