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Question: Do you agree that a husband's job is to earn money; a wife's job is to look after the home and family?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
44 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Indonesia77.5%
2 Philippines74.3%
3 Russian Federation58.2%
4 Dominican Republic53.2%
5 Turkiye52.9%
6 Ukraine44.1%
7 Poland41.7%
8 Hungary41.1%
9 South Africa40.9%
10 Mexico39.8%
11 Taiwan39.4%
12 Republic of Korea38.1%
13 Latvia37.6%
14 Czech Republic36.8%
15 Slovakia35.6%
16 Sri Lanka34.2%
17 Italy33.3%
18 Tanzania32.0%
19 Japan 31.8%
20 Venezuela31.5%
21 Chile27.8%
22 United States27.6%
23 Austria26.8%
24 Uruguay26.3%
25 Israel26.2%
26 Switzerland22.2%
27 Germany21.4%
28 Ireland21.3%
29 Kenya20.9%
30 New Zealand20.3%
31 Croatia20.0%
32 Portugal19.6%
33 Slovenia19.5%
34 United Kingdom18.5%
35 Australia16.3%
36 Spain15.8%
37 Belgium14.7%
38 Cyprus12.1%
38 France12.1%
40 Netherlands9.9%
41 Finland9.7%
42 Denmark7.5%
43 Norway6.0%
44 Sweden4.7%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. Italy: unweighted sum of 2008 and 2010 surveys. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 194 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data44
Regression equation
Y = -2.644999 X +7.078
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.491
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.241

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data44
Regression equation
Y = -99231.827625 X +63507.012
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.607
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.368

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -23.036817 X +84.048
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.621
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.386

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = 0.788547 X +1.560
Correlation coefficient (r)0.200
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -2.104950 X +10.796
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.067
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004