India: opinion on gender attitudes, by level of education

According to a survey carried out in 2020 by the Pew Research Centre in India, 75 percent of college-educated respondents felt that when there were fewer jobs, men should have the priority in being employed. Among the lesser educated respondents, 80 percent felt that men should have priority over women when fewer jobs were available in the market.

Public opinion on gender attitudes in India in 2020, by level of education

Characteristic	College-educated	Less education
A wife must always obey her husband	80%	88%
When there are few jobs, men should have more rights to a job than women	75%	80%
Sons should have the primary responsibility for a parent's last rites or burial rituals	53%	64%
Men in a family should be primarily responsible for earning money	33%	44%
Sons should have the primary responsibility to care for parents as they age	32%	39%
Women in a family should be primarily responsible for taking care of children	24%	35%
Men generally make better political leaders than women	22%	25%
Sons should have a greater right to inheritance from parents	21%	35%
Men in a family should be primarily responsible for making decisions about expenses	11%	21%

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Release date

March 2022

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Region

Asia, India

Survey time period

November 17, 2019 to March 23, 2020

Number of respondents

29,999 respondents

Age group

18 years and older

Special properties

22,975 Hindus, 3,336 Muslims, 1,782 Sikhs, 1,011 Christians, 719 Buddhists, 109 Jains and 67 respondents who belong to another religion or are religiously unaffiliated

Method of interview

Face-to-face interview

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