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Question: In your country today, when it comes to getting high-paying jobs, who do you think have opportunities?
Choices: "Men generally have more opportunities" "Women generally have more opportunities" "Opportunities are generally about the same for both"
Data: % of "Men generally have more opportunities"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden80.3%
2 France79.0%
3 Republic of Korea73.6%
4 Japan72.8%
5 Israel71.8%
6 United Kingdom71.6%
7 Australia 70.1%
8 Spain69.7%
9 Canada68.7%
10 Italy66.2%
11 Netherlands64.7%
11 Slovakia64.7%
13 Czech Republic63.5%
14 Germany63.1%
15 United States61.8%
16 Poland59.2%
17 Hungary58.3%
18 Lithuania57.5%
19 Ukraine54.2%
20 Bulgaria53.7%
21 Brazil52.2%
22 Turkiye51.9%
23 Russian Federation50.9%
24 Greece49.8%
25 Argentina48.8%
26 Nigeria48.1%
27 Lebanon45.9%
28 Mexico35.2%
29 South Africa32.8%
30 Kenya32.3%
31 Tunisia30.7%
32 India26.6%
33 Indonesia23.5%
34 Philippines17.4%

Note
Don't know/ Refused are excluded.

No data for 204 countries.

Source
Pew Research Center "Global Attitudes Survey" Spring 2019.

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 3.786145 X +3.909
Correlation coefficient (r)0.603
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.364

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 96275.645909 X -27382.595
Correlation coefficient (r)0.755
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.570

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 33.698592 X +56.698
Correlation coefficient (r)0.749
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.561

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -1.957395 X +2.938
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.410
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.168

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 6.299165 X +6.171
Correlation coefficient (r)0.180
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.032