Title: Poll: Few Identify As Feminists, But Most Believe In Equality Of Sexes | HuffPost
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Poll: Few Identify As Feminists, But Most Believe In Equality Of Sexes
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04/16/2013 05:53 pm ET Updated Dec 06, 2017
Poll: Few Identify As Feminists, But Most Believe In Equality Of Sexes
By Emily Swanson
Only one-fifth of Americans identify as feminists, according to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll. But the vast majority fit the basic definition of the word. According to the survey, just 20 percent of Americans — including 23 percent of women and 16 percent of men — consider themselves feminists. Another 8 percent consider themselves anti-feminists, while 63 percent said they are neither. Download
Broken down by party, 32 percent of Democrats, 19 percent of independents and only 5 percent of Republicans said they are feminists. But asked if they believe that “men and women should be social, political, and economic equals,” 82 percent of the survey respondents said they did, and just 9 percent said they did not. Equal percentages of men and women said they agreed with that statement, along with 87 percent of Democrats, 81 percent of independents and 76 percent of Republicans. Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines feminism as “the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes.”