One in three young people sees well that their boyfriend tells him what to do
The Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality has presented a study on "Social perception of gender violence in adolescence and youth", commissioned by the Government Delegation for Gender Violence and which has been prepared by the Center for Sociological Research (CIS). The poll It was carried out on a sample of carried out with a sample of more than 2,500 young people of both sexes, between 15 and 29 years of age.
Among the many conclusions of the report, the one from the great acceptance by young people that their partners control them aspects such as schedules, relationships with family and friends, the studies or work and even in tell them what they can and can not do. Specifically, 33% of the young Spanish population considers this way of acceptable or inevitable control.
Gender inequalities
With regard to how young people perceive gender inequalities, the report notes that this perception is lower among young people than in adults. Be it in question of the differences between salaries, the promotion in the professional career, the possibility of finding a job and that is stable or access to education: Young people believe that women are equal to men in a greater proportion than the total population. Thus, 71% of women and half of men of all ages consider that gender inequalities are great or very large. However, the percentages drop when young people are asked: 44% in the case of boys, and 63% in the case of girls.
Gender violence: close cases and awareness campaigns
More striking data: the study shows that there are many more women who know about their environment case of gender violence what men. Specifically, in a proportion ten points higher. 34% of the young people claim to know a case, compared to only 24% in the group of men. In addition, there are differences regarding the relationship that binds them to the victim: In the young, the bond is friendship, in the boys, it is about neighbors.
Regarding prevention measures of these attitudes, the study highlights that eight out of ten young Spaniards think that the campaigns that are launched from the different organisms in order to sensitize the population against gender violence they help, and half of them are able to remember some.
Isabel Martínez
