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It's Thursday, July 8, and this is the Double X Gab Fest.

I'm Jessica Gross, managing editor of Double X, and I am joined by Slate's June Thomas and Slate's

Nina Rastogi, both of whom have blogged on the XX Factor and our delightful ladies. So today

we are going to talk about a Pew study from last week about gender equality, the New York Magazine cover

story from this week about how mothers hate their lives, and the real L word. So, Nina, could

you sort of summarize the Pew study that came out last week and tell us your thoughts?

Sure. Well, it is a big study with a lot of numbers.

So I recommend that if you're interested in the study, first of all, go straight to the Pew page and read their little summary.

I think it's the easiest way to kind of get a hold on what the study says.

But basically, so this is part of Pew's sort of ongoing global attitudes project.

And what this particular sort of slice of the study looked at, it was a survey that took place over 22 countries. They talked to

24,790 people about gender equality. And the big takeaways from the study were that in almost all of the

countries they surveyed, and almost all of the 22 countries, people expressed support for the

idea of gender equality. Most, the majority of people in all those countries answered, yes, women

should have equal rights with men, which is a,

which is a, you know, great and promising and, you know, yeah, thumbs up. Yeah, we're all, we're all

talking about that. But then as the, as the service sort of goes on, you know, there's things that

complicate the picture. You know, in a lot of those countries, people say that despite the fact that, you know, that people believe that women should have equal rights as men, that that's not the reality reflected on the ground, that some people believe that in times of sort of job shortage, men should have priority over getting jobs. There were disparities about whether, you know, a university education was more important

to a man or more important to a woman disparities over whether the best kind of home life

was one in which both parents worked or one in which the man, you know, provided and the woman

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