New data has come out showing that Gen Z men across the world hold some pretty regressive views about women – even more than those of the older adults whose relationships they’re trying to emulate.

In a poll conducted by IPSOS of more than 23,000 people from 29 countries, 31% of Gen Z men believe "a wife should always obey her husband." By comparison, only 13% of baby boomers responded as such in the International Women's Day study.

The majority of Gen Z men – 59% – believe that men are “expected to do too much to support equality,” compared with 45% of baby boomers; 57% of Gen Z men believe women’s equality has gone so far that men are now discriminated against, compared with 42% of their boomer counterparts.

Some Gen Z men are so committed to the role of misogynist that they’re already trying to get women to obey them. More than 1 in 3 Gen Z men also believe that “young women should try to be physically attractive,” and that women “should not say ‘I love you’ to their friends.”

The results confirm a lot of what Gen Z women already know, regardless of where we live in the world: Our male peers do not see us as equals. And while there are many reasons men are behaving in this way, it doesn’t change the fact that Gen Z women are having to put up with all of this misogyny.

Of course, this poll........

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