Sexism linked to social ills for men and women, finds largest cross-cultural study of its kind

NEW YORK - Feb. 6, 2025 - PRLog -- By: Magdalena Zawisza, Anglia Ruskin University, Natasza Kosakowska-Berezecka, University of Gdansk, DME Music News

Feminism is facing a backlash, with women's rights being rolled back in many countries and a significant number of people saying feminism has gone far enough or even too far. Yet women still face basic obstacles to education in some countries and are generally paid less than men. They still suffer from male violence and, in some places, face increasing restrictions to reproductive rights. There are even some places where families force midwives to kill their newborn girls.Many women are also fed up with doing both a full-time job and the lion's share of domestic duties and unpaid caring jobs. It's easy to wonder whether gender equality is simply impossible, especially as many men inaccurately perceive that gains for women equate losses for men.

But there is hope. Our 62-nation psychological study, which is largest of its kind, suggests that gender equality benefits us all and sexism is harmful to everybody – women, men and nations in many surprising ways. As such, we all have an interest in promoting egalitarianism.As our findings show, sexism is linked with several social ills affecting us all. For example, higher sexism predicted lower GDP – indicating lower economic productivity. It also predicted a lower "global peace index", meaning nation's higher domestic and international conflict, militarisation and lower safety and security.

Further, sexism was linked to a greater level of antidemocratic practices in a given country. Lastly, it even predicted shorter healthy lifespans (ones without chronic disease or disability) in women and men as measured with WHO's Healthy Life Expectancy in Women and Men. For example, our data reveals that one point increase in sexism (measured from 0-5) is linked with a 9.12 months shorter lifespan in men and 8.88 months in women.

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