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Question: In a family, when it comes to making important decisions about how to raise children , who do you think have influence?
Choices: "Men generally have more influence" "Women generally have more influence" "Men and women generally have about the same influence"
Data: % of "Women generally have more influence"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Lithuania 63.5%
2 Greece57.7%
3 Slovakia56.6%
4 Lebanon56.2%
5 Israel54.9%
6 Turkiye49.6%
7 Czech Republic49.1%
8 Poland48.1%
9 Hungary47.9%
10 Republic of Korea46.5%
11 Tunisia46.1%
11 Ukraine46.1%
13 South Africa41.1%
14 India40.6%
15 Brazil40.1%
16 Russian Federation39.1%
17 Germany38.8%
18 United Kingdom38.2%
19 Italy38.1%
20 United States37.8%
21 Australia37.5%
22 Japan37.4%
23 Netherlands37.1%
24 Nigeria36.8%
25 Bulgaria36.7%
26 Canada36.4%
27 Sweden34.6%
28 France33.5%
29 Kenya30.9%
30 Argentina25.9%
31 Mexico21.5%
32 Indonesia16.0%
33 Spain15.4%
34 Philippines13.9%

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 = -1.073507 X +6.418
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.123
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 7578.658814 X +22577.495
Correlation coefficient (r)0.043
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 8.877634 X +71.714
Correlation coefficient (r)0.142
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -1.033446 X +2.271
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.156
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 11.563205 X +5.047
Correlation coefficient (r)0.237
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.056