Equal Rights for Women and Men 1998

Attitudes to equal rights for women and men in various areas of life.
Topics:
party preference;
interest in politics;
political level (municipal to international policy)
for which the strongest interest exists;
fair share of standard of living;
judgement on personal economic situation;
importance of areas of life;
preferred occupational conduct of a mother with a child
(taking advantage of maternity leave, leave for new parent or
discontinuation of employment);
general attitude to leave for new parent for fathers and
related co one's own family situation;
institutions that should make a greater effort for increased
utilization of leave for new parent for fathers;
preference for responsibility for raising pre-school child as well as
for school-age children with father or mother;
loss for the father if he does not take part in child-raising;
assumed harm in the development of children from child-raising without father as
well as in a full-time kindergarten and on the other hand outside of the family;
satisfaction with kindergarten situation;
importance of economic independence of a woman;
perceived differences in the career chances between the sexes;
attitude to these differences;
attitude to women in male occupations;
importance of professional career for men as well as for women;
preference for a man or a woman as superior as well as colleague;
suspicions about parity of pay for work of equal value by men and women;
assessment of the career chances of women;
knowledge about the legal situation on sexual harassment at work;
personal experience with sexual harassment;
taking advantage of support of employer with sexual harassment experienced;
personal intent to respond to job advertisements
addressing persons of the other sex;
attitude to an official ordinance also to use the female form
next to the male in written language;
general adequate effort for equal rights;
realization of equal rights as task of the government or the individual;
most able party in the matter of equal rights;
preference for more or fewer women in positions of political leadership;
attitude to prescribing quotas for women in politics;
enough women in positions of economic leadership;
attitude to current extent of support of employment of women,
making it easier to return to working life as well as
the occupational support of handicapped women;
judgement on the social chances of handicapped women;
preference for part-time work;
preferred division of working hours throughout the week;
frequency of athletic activity;
conducting sport in a club or in a group;
reason for athletic activity;
most important source of information on health questions;
knowledge about the Muettergenesungswerk
{organization providing rest for mothers};
judgement on the sensibility of the work of the Muettergenesungswerk;
knowledge of cases of domestic violence in one's circle of friends and
personal conduct (getting involved, staying out);
distribution of tasks in household (cleaning, cooking, shopping);
satisfaction with distribution of tasks in household;
person who should work more in household;
size of household and composition of household;
number of children;
number of pre-school-age
children in household;
attending kindergarten or children's nursery;
problems with the coordination of time due to the start of teaching;
satisfaction with situation of children's nurseries;
children in kindergarten;
desire for children and desired number of children;
arranging division of tasks in child care in cases of illness,
visit to the doctor, going to the playground, homework supervision and
attendance of parents evenings in school.
Demography:
age;
school education;
completed apprenticeship, government examination or diploma;
employment;
current personal job security;
jeopardy to job in one's circle of friends;
retired in the framework of an early retirement arrangement;
professional position and occupation;
marital status;
steady partner and living together with a partner;
school degree of companion through life;
completed apprenticeship and government examination;
occupation and professional position of partner;
partner primary earner;
city size;
state;
union membership;
religious denomination;
frequency of church attendance;
sex.