Access to health and sexual education, contraceptive methods and consent were some of the topics addressed in the questions asked to the respondents. The consultation, which was commissioned by the Ministry for Women and Gender Equality from the Humanas Corporation, was carried out between the months of October and November 2022.
The Ministry of Women and Gender Equity released the results of the survey on Sexual and Reproductive Rights carried out by Corporación Humanas between October and November.
Regarding perceptions, 71.9% of the people surveyed affirm that consent is fundamental in sexual relations.
Also, 62.1% of women and 52.3% of men say they disagree with the statement “men by nature have more sexual needs than women”.
And 86.4% indicate that they strongly agree or agree with the premise that “abortion is a women’s right”and women tend to be more in favor of this statement.
They hope that the background will allow the discussion to move forward
The Minister for Women and Gender Equality, Antonia Orellanaon the interruption of pregnancy, explained that this background serves to advance the discussion and generate agreements.
“Regarding the issue of voluntary termination of pregnancy, but we also have to problematize the figure, what is being understood by abortion when we say it. Many times they refer only to the three causes. Therefore, this is information that is preliminary, which is good for advancing sexual and reproductive rights, but on which it is necessary to deepen”, stated the Secretary of State.
Survey on Sexual and Reproductive Rights #MinMujeryEG ➡️ Minister @totiorellanag subse @LuzVidalH Director @SernamEGChile Priscilla Carrasco and @corphumanas presented the main results. See the poll here: https://t.co/rRtemaihht pic.twitter.com/WYjqK44GZo
— Ministry of Women and Gender Equity (@MinMujeryEG) January 30, 2023
in matters of sex educationmost disapprove of the training he received at his college, a 55.8% declare that the education received was very bad23.4% rated it as bad and a 9.7% never received.
Thus, 94.1% are in favor of creating a law that guarantees comprehensive sexual education for all levels of education.
Study addressed sexual rights issues with intersectional approaches
The director of the National Service for Women and Gender Equality, Priscilla Carrascoexplained that the study also included questions that allowed intersectional approaches to be applied.
“In the study there are questions about migrant women, about women who belong to indigenous groups. And that group of variables also seems to us to be important to look at how sexual rights issues are in our society,” said Carrasco.
The conclusions that stood out in the study were that Motherhood is no longer a “natural role” or fate of women and that abortion is understood as a women’s right.
In addition, women and younger age groups stated that they felt more vulnerable in terms of their sexual and reproductive rights.
What do we think about our training in sex education? What is the most widely used contraceptive method today? ????Review the results of the Survey on Sexual and Reproductive Rights launched today by @MinMujeryEG ✅Available at: https://t.co/rRtemaihht pic.twitter.com/m88vp6YIGt
— Ministry of Women and Gender Equity (@MinMujeryEG) January 30, 2023
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