More than half of the world’s population identify as feminists - in India alone, over 80 percent of respondents very much or somewhat agreed that they defined themselves as feminists. Surprisingly, this number is much lower in developed countries like the United States or Germany (with not even 40 percent of respondents agreeing), which might be due to the bad reputation feminism - wrongfully – has.

But are some really more equal than others?

Despite its deceptive title, feminism is not about establishing superiority of women – its core concept is equality for all, no matter their sex, gender, or orientation. Achieving this equality means championing women with more force and verve than has been done before, since today’s societies are deeply patriarchal – i.e. they favor men over women. Critics often misinterpret this support of women as an attempt to suppress and attack men – when in fact, feminism and equality for all benefits them as well.

The country of the poets and thinkers seems stuck

In Germany, feminism is on the rise, but traditional gender roles and insufficient information still hinder progress. Only a third of German women, and even fewer German men, define themselves as feminist, while at the same time, over 70 percent of women and almost 60 percent of men would agree that gender equality is important to them. Still, they are not convinced that discrimination against women is ending anytime soon. Most of all, they say, reallocating responsibility and adjusting payrolls would help to achieve a feminist society.

This survey, conducted in Germany in February 2014, shows the share of people who defined themselves as feminists - someone who advocates and supports equal opportunities for women. In Germany, a total of 5 percent of the respondents defined themselves as feminists.

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In 2023, the share of young women in Spain who identified as feminist was more than double that of young men who considered themselves as such. Moreover, while the percentage of feminist women grew consistently since until 2021, it fell by almost ** percentage points between 2021 and 2023. In the case of male youths, this figure fell by * percent in 2023. This same survey also revealed that almost ** percent of young Spanish men believed that gender inequality in the country very small, and another ** percent claimed that such inequality did not exist.

This paper analyzes data from the 2018 Sex in Canada survey (n = 1,015 cisgender men) to examine the association between feminist identification and reported use of prescription ED medication (EDM) during men’s last sexual encounter. Feminist-identified men were substantially more likely to report EDM use than non-feminist men, even after controlling for alcohol use before sex, erection difficulties, sexual arousal, sexual health, mental health, and physical health. One explanation is that feminist men may use EDM to bolster their masculinity when it is otherwise threatened by their identification as feminist. Another is that non-feminist men may be less likely to use prescription EDM because they view accessing healthcare services as a threat to their masculinity. It is also possible that feminist men are more likely to use EDM because they wish to maintain an erection to better please their partner. Lastly, feminist men may be more honest about EDM use than non-feminist men, even though rates are similar. Regardless of the exact reason, therapists can use these results to tailor sexual health messages to clients based on feminist identification. Future work could employ qualitative methods to understand why feminist men report higher rates of EDM use than non-feminist men.

Open science data and code for "Feminist Identity and Sexual Behavior: The Intimate is Political," published in Archives of Sexual Behavior

According to a survey published in 2022, a quarter of respondents in Spain believed that feminism does more harm than good. In the case of male Spaniards, this share went up to ** percent. The survey also revealed that ** percent of people in the country thinks that gender inequality is not real.

This record for the Dataset 2 (Survey) from the Work Package 2 (Effects of, and Resistances to 'Anti-Gender' Mobilisations Across Europe) of the RESIST Project has been created in the Zenodo open repository, in line with the RESIST Project’s Data Management Plan, and according to the framework of the Open Science principles of the European Union. We followed the accepted gold-standard rule: “as open as possible – as closed as necessarily” to ensure research ethics, integrity, and compliance with the research policies of the EU and the consortium members.

Data gathered during the Work Package 2 (Effects of, and Resistances to 'Anti-Gender' Mobilisations Across Europe) have been classified as SENSITIVE and therefore the dataset will not be available in open access repositories for ten years after the end of the project (that is until 01/10/2036). After 01/10/2036, if certain conditions outlined by the project consortium are met, the dataset will be released publicly on Zenodo.

Financial overview and grant giving statistics of Feminist Majority Foundation

How do Poles understand the concepts of feminism and feminist and how do they use these terms? Reconnaissance.

Join our feminist data initiative! We are building an open-data platform for feminist organisations to publish data, research and resources that are useful in advocacy, including sexuality rights. Our motivation for the project is our own experiences with limited access to resources around human rights. #GenderOpenData is the first open data platform for feminist organisations. As a centralized and searchable database, it seeks to address the lack of feminist data by making feminist organisations' data easily available using open data standards. The platform also highlights/promotes good practices, research reports and other resources produced by feminist organisations which can be used by local, regional and international activists. GenderOpenData.org is hosted by the Center of Women's Rights Advocacy and Tenery Research and made possible by the generous support of funders and volunteers.

The importance and impact of feminist mobilization across borders is well documented, but the impact of autonomy as an aspect of such organizing has not been explored in the transnational context. We argue that to understand the impact of transnational feminist mobilization, at least two distinct types of feminist mobilization require further conceptual development and empirical exploration in the transnational context, namely, autonomous as contrasted with multilateral mobilization. We offer a conceptual framework for distinguishing and studying these two forms. Further, using a mixed-methods study design, we empirically distinguish domestic and transnational dimensions of feminist activism and illuminate the impact of both multilateral feminist organizing and autonomous feminist organizing in the transnational space. Our analysis reveals that domestic and transnational organizing are distinct but related phenomena. We also find that in online organizing spaces, autonomous feminist campaigns amplify the messaging of geographically dispersed grassroots and individual activists more than multilateral ones. It further suggests that autonomous movements may offer more potential for representing marginalized groups of women, though this potential may not always be realized. The paper offers new concepts and empirical insights for the study of transnational feminism, thereby enabling a new research agenda. Further, this research contributes to the study of the ways that Transnational Social Movements can enrich global civil society and deepen global democracy.

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This Stata do-file analyzes attitudes to transgender athletes competing in female sports by age and feminism, from the British Election Study wave 25.

AdArchive expands feminist periodical scholarship with an innovative focus on advertisements from feminist-identified journals. AdArchive’s research indicates that, despite their political differences and frequent struggles to stay afloat, feminist periodicals rarely viewed each other as competitors in the magazine market. Instead, magazines encouraged their readers to expand their engagement with feminist movements by including advertisements for other feminist magazines, events, activities, and enterprises in the back pages of each issue. This dataset assembles records of advertisements contained in Heresies, a feminist art magazine that was published in New York from 1977 to 1992. Approximately 210 advertisements from 27 issues of the magazine are described. The advertisements in Heresies frequently promote other magazines, which allows for a rich exploration of networks of feminist cultural production and interconnected social movements. The data has been transformed into Linked Open Data via the LINCS conversion toolkit of the the Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship (LINCS) project. The data is assembled as a single text file in text/turtle (.ttl) and contains descriptive metadata that has been reconciled into triples using established linked data vocabularies. AdArchive has been supported by funding from SSHRC.

Abstract When walking through the streets of Porto Alegre, we face many messages directed to women, talking about feminism, lesbian visibility, violence against women, empowerment, among others. These words are painted, “pichadas”, glued, they are on walls, buildings, poles, in a way of doing politics that mixes with urban art. In this article I investigate women who use urban space as a canvas to spread their message. By diverting from the standard norm, where the domain of the gaze and the public space is assumed to be masculine, I talk about the visual and artistic production of militancy related to gender issues and how this is reflected in the occupation of the streets. From photographic observation and cataloging of messages and interviews with artists, I research on feminist activism tactics related to the act of producing art and occupation of the city by female bodies.

Replication Data and Code for: "The Electoral Costs and Benefits of Feminism in Contemporary American Politics"

Lydia Sklevicky's Feminist Collection at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb consists of a newspaper and periodicals collection, documentation and a library that testify to Sklevicky’s professional work and interests, primarily related to feminism and the issues of women's rights in Yugoslavia and the world. Sklevicky was one of the protagonists of the late 1970s and 1980s who put women's issues in focus and criticized the unenviable position of women in Yugoslavia, particularly by pointing out the discrepancy between their contribution in World War II and their prominent role in the post-war period on the one hand, and their re-marginalization since the mid-1950s on the other.