Views on gender roles have become less traditional over the past three decades.
According to data from the British Social Attitudes Survey, in 2017, 72% disagree with the view that a man’s job is to earn money; a woman’s job is to look after the home and family.
This is up from 58% in 2008. In the early to mid-1980s, it was around a third.
Chris Coates highlights the value of engaging france rcs data with surveys and how they can make a difference.
We wanted to promote the idea of taking part in national surveys, to try to boost the numbers of people who agree to be involved when the Office for National Statistics contacts them.
We could only reach a small number of people from the local area, but it seemed a good way to explore the kinds of messages that might convince people.
We wanted an audience which was largely drawn from the general public, so opted to go off the University of Essex campus and hold a joint event with Colchester’s Café Scientifique – bringing some new faces to their event, and making us fairly certain that we could persuade fifty people to come out on a dark evening to hear about data science.
I started by addressing people’s preconceptions about data sharing in the light of current affairs such as the Cambridge Analytica story – making it clear that we were talking about different kinds of data and data sharing.