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•Fifty-seven percent declare that a candidate’s opinion on women’s issues would be "very important" to their voting decision in the next presidential election (an additional 23 percent said that women’s issues would be "somewhat important" to their vote).

•Forty-four percent would be more likely to vote for a candidate who promises to appoint men and women in equal proportions to the cabinet, and 42 percent say this promise would not make a difference (only 10 percent said they would be less likely to vote for this candidate).

Changing Views on Gender Equality

Public attitudes toward gender equality have changed as more women have entered into positions of power, though men are more confident of an equal society than are women.

•Between 1996 and 2000, people in Colombia, El Salvador, and Mexico (countries for which data from both years were available) changed their assessment of the differences between men and women. In 1996, about 40 percent of people in these countries said that men and women are basically the same. Four years later, this had grown to over 60 percent in these same three countries.

•In 2000, 60 percent of people living in the cities studied declared that men and women have equal opportunities to gain access to political office. However, 50 percent report that more generally, society continues to favor men.