Q. How much sexism and discrimination against women do you think currently occurs in the following?
| A lot | Some | A little | None at all | Don’t know | A lot/ some Total | A lot/ some Men | A lot/ some Women | A lot/ some Oct 12 | A lot/ some Jun 13 | A lot/ some Jan 16 | |||
| In workplaces | 22% | 35% | 28% | 7% | 8% | 57% | 46% | 67% | 55% | 60% | 61% | ||
| In the media | 28% | 36% | 23% | 7% | 7% | 64% | 55% | 73% | 56% | 59% | 58% | ||
| In politics | 25% | 35% | 24% | 8% | 8% | 60% | 49% | 70% | 61% | 61% | 62% | ||
| In advertising | 28% | 32% | 22% | 9% | 10% | 60% | 50% | 69% | 59% | 60% | 61% | ||
| In sport | 22% | 34% | 25% | 10% | 8% | 56% | 47% | 66% | 58% | 57% | 60% | ||
| In schools | 15% | 33% | 28% | 13% | 11% | 48% | 43% | 54% | 43% | 40% | 40% |
A majority of respondents think there is a lot or some sexism in the media (64%), politics (60%), advertising (60%), workplaces (57%) and sport (56%).
Women were more likely than men to think there is a lot or some sexism in all areas – but especially in workplaces (women 67%, men 46%) and politics (70%/49%).
There has been some small changes in these figures since this question was asked in January last year – sexism in workplaces has dropped 4%, in the media up 6%, in sport down 4% and in schools up 8%. However, there has been more significant change in the differences between men and women on some issues. On sexism in the workplace the gap between perceptions of men and women has increased from 12% to 21%.