{"id":24606,"date":"2019-12-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuovowww.collaudo.istat.it\/non-categorizzato\/gender-roles-stereotypes-and-attitudes-to-sexual-violence\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T15:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:52:13","slug":"gender-roles-stereotypes-and-attitudes-to-sexual-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/press-release\/gender-roles-stereotypes-and-attitudes-to-sexual-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender roles and stereotypes"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Italy the most common stereotype concerning traditional gender roles were \u201cfor a man, more than for a\u00a0 woman, is very important to be successful at work\u201d (32.5%), \u201cmen are less suitable for doing housework\u201d (31.5%), \u201cit\u2019s up to man to provide for family\u2019s financial needs\u201d (27.9%). The statement \u201cit\u2019s up to the man to take the most important decisions concerning the family\u201d attracted lower levels of agreement (8.8%).<\/p>\n

Among people aged 18-74, 58.8% had one or more of these beliefs. There were not big differences between\u00a0opinions of men and women and the agreement increased with the age (65.7% of people aged 60-74 compared\u00a0with 45.3% of people aged 18-29) and among people with lower education.<\/p>\n

Gender roles stereotypes were more frequent in Southern Italy (67.8%), especially in Campania (71.6%)\u00a0and Sicily, and less spread in Northeast Italy (52.6%), with the lowest agreement in Friuli-Venezia Giulia (49.2%).<\/p>\n

As far as attitudes to intimate partner violence were concerned, 7.4% of people found always or under\u00a0certain circumstances acceptable that \u201ca young man slap her girlfriend because she flirted with another man\u201d;\u00a06.2% believed that in a relationship a slap might occasionally occur. Moreover, 17.7% considered always or\u00a0under certain circumstances acceptable that a man usually controlled his partner\u2019s mobile phone and\/or activities on social media.<\/p>\n

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In Italy the most common stereotype concerning traditional gender roles were \u201cfor a man, more than for a\u00a0 woman, is very important to be successful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4082],"tags":[3243,3230,3495,3611,2969,3424,3944],"regione":[],"tema":[4072,4060,4064],"class_list":["post-24606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release","tag-gender","tag-household","tag-labour","tag-society","tag-report","tag-violence","tag-vaw","tema-citizens-opinions","tema-health-statistics","tema-justice-and-security"],"meta_fields":{"data_pubblicazione":"20191212","descrizioneperiodo":"Year 2018","titolobreve":"Gender roles and stereotypes","news":"In 2018, 58.8% of the population (18-74 years) finds themselves in gender stereotypes","news_rss":"In Italy the most common stereotype concerning traditional gender roles were \u201cfor a man, more than for a woman, is very important to be successful at work\u201d (32.5%), \u201cmen are less suitable for doing housework\u201d (31.5%), \u201cit\u2019s up to man to provide for family\u2019s financial needs\u201d (27.9%). The statement \u201cit\u2019s up to the man to take the most important decisions concerning the family\u201d attracted lower levels of agreement (8.8%).","sottotitolo":""},"acf":[],"wpml_current_locale":"en_US","wpml_translations":[],"tags-info":[{"id":3243,"label":"gender","slug":"gender"},{"id":3230,"label":"household","slug":"household"},{"id":3495,"label":"labour","slug":"labour"},{"id":3611,"label":"society","slug":"society"},{"id":2969,"label":"statistics report","slug":"report"},{"id":3424,"label":"violence","slug":"violence"},{"id":3944,"label":"Violence Against Women","slug":"vaw"}],"categories-info":[{"id":4082,"label":"Press release","slug":"press-release"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116301,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24606\/revisions\/116301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24606"},{"taxonomy":"regione","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regione?post=24606"},{"taxonomy":"tema","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tema?post=24606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}