Women head governments, run companies and comprise about half the world's workforce, but a global poll shows that one in four people, most of them young, believe a woman's place is in the home. The survey of over 24,000 adults in 23 countries, conducted by Reuters/Ipsos and released on the eve of International Women's Day, showed that people from India (54 percent), Turkey (52 percent), Japan (48 percent), China, Russia, Hungary (34 percent each) and South Korea (33 percent) were most likely to agree that women should not work. And, perhaps surprisingly, people aged between 18 and 34 years are most likely to hold that view, not those from the older, and more traditional, generation. However, the majority, or 74 percent, of those polled believe a woman's place is certainly not at home. In countries where most people believed women should stay at home, or where the majority held the opposite view, there was little difference between the sexes, the survey showed. For example, in India, the country where more than half of those polled said women should stay home, an almost equal number of men and women held this view. The following results table from the survey conducted between November and January begins with the countries where citizens are most likely to agree that “a women's place is in the home.” All figures are percentages. India 54 Turkey 52 Japan 48 China 34 Russia 34 Hungary 34 South Korea 33 Czech Republic 28 Australia 25 United States 25 Great Britain 22 Canada 20 Netherlands 20 Canada 20 Italy 19 Poland 18 Belgium 16 Germany 14 Spain 1 2 Brazil 10 Sweden 10 Mexico 9 France 9 Argentina 9
