We released a new survey today that finds strong support for gender equity as a foreign policy goal. For instance,

• 85% rated the rights of women and girls as a very high priority.
• 74% agreed that the U.S. government should actively work to promote human rights in other countries.
• When given a choice among the rights that the U.S. should promote, 51% ranked women’s rights as first or second, second only to “free and open elections” and ahead of freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and the rights of workers and unions.
• Two-thirds agreed that more participation by women would make the world more peaceful.
• Most respondents would support women’s rights overseas even if that meant less consumer choice from international trade, fewer exports, or more disagreement with America’s friends and allies.

Click for more detail from this survey of 1,000 Americans conducted in early September 2017 by the Department of Political Science and the Tisch College of Civic Life. Credit to my colleagues Professor Richard Eichenberg in the Political Science Department, Dr. Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg and Noorya Hayat of CIRCLE, and student Anna Jacobson.