For the second consecutive year, a wide survey found people in Latin America are the least likely to say they live in countries where women are treated with respect and dignity, ranking below the Middle East and North Africa.
The Gallup survey found a wide range of opinions within Latin America: while 63 percent of respondents in Ecuador said women get respect, only 20 percent said the same in Peru and Colombia.
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A Gallup survey found that respect for women was strongest in Asia and Europe, and weakest in the Middle East, North Africa, and Latin America. Gallup hide caption
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A Gallup survey found that respect for women was strongest in Asia and Europe, and weakest in the Middle East, North Africa, and Latin America.
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"A median of 35 percent of adults across 22 Latin American countries said their women are treated [with respect] — about half as high as percentages in any other region of the world," Gallup says.
Asia ranked highest in the survey, with 76 percent saying women are respected. Europe wasn't far behind in second place, with 72 percent. The survey was conducted among thousands of people in some 150 countries in 2012 and 2013.
Update at 5 p.m. ET: The U.S. Results
Responding to a request for more information, Gallup says that in the U.S., 77 percent of respondents said women are treated with respect and dignity.
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Ecuador was the only Latin American nation where more than 60 percent of respondents said women were respected, a result that Gallup's analysts attribute to new laws and awareness campaigns. It's one of just five countries in the region where more than 50 percent said women are treated with respect.
The survey also found an interesting disparity: In some countries, men were far more likely than women to say that women are respected. The widest gap was in Jamaica, where men were more than twice as likely to say women were respected (41 percent to 19 percent). Argentina had the second-largest gap (50 percent to 36 percent).
“Do you believe women in this country are treated with respect and dignity, or not?”
% Yes
% No
% Don't Know
Ecuador
63
35
2
Uruguay
57
38
5
Venezuela
54
43
3
Mexico
54
43
4
Panama
51
45
4
Suriname
47
49
4
Costa Rica
45
49
5
Argentina
43
54
3
Nicaragua
42
57
1
Chile
38
60
3
Haiti
37
59
4
El Salvador
32
63
5
Honduras
31
68
2
Dominican Republic
30
68
1
Jamaica
30
66
4
Bolivia
28
69
3
Paraguay
27
72
1
Brazil
27
69
4
Guatemala
27
72
1
Trinidad & Tobago
25
66
9
Colombia
20
78
2
Peru
20
76
4
Source: Gallup poll conducted in person and by telephone in 2012 and 2013. Margin of error ranged from ±3.5 percentage points to ±5.0 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.
Gallup says its survey was conducted through face-to-face interviews with around 1,000 people in 19 Latin American countries, and 500 in three others.
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