To gain an even better understanding of the current situation for women and men when it comes to the topics discussed at RealTalk, PostFinance commissioned the market and social research institute gfs-zürich to conduct a Switzerland-wide study.
More than 1,500 participants aged between 16 and 65 from German-speaking and Western Switzerland were surveyed on the following core topics:
As expected, a number of presumptions about the individual results have been confirmed by the study. Other results show a slow change in the distribution of roles within our society.
In the free study, for example, you will find a more detailed presentation of the following findings:
Although 67 percent of respondents consider equal sharing of childcare to be the ideal, only a quarter state that this is actually the case for them.
While the father’s role as the main breadwinner is hardly surprising, 47 percent of the mothers surveyed stated they would like to increase their level of employment.
For example, 28 percent of men surveyed stated that they finance the family car themselves. For women, the proportion financing cars is only 7 percent.
All study results are now available free of charge as a PDF.
