{"id":19198,"date":"2017-11-07T17:57:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T22:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=19198"},"modified":"2017-11-07T18:00:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T23:00:06","slug":"the-public-supports-womens-rights-in-us-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=19198","title":{"rendered":"the public supports women&#8217;s rights in US foreign policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We released a <a href=\"https:\/\/tischcollege.tufts.edu\/research\/pursuit-gender-equality-american-foreign-policy\">new survey<\/a> today that finds strong support for gender equity as a foreign policy goal. For instance,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>85% rated the rights of women and girls as a very high priority.<\/li>\n<li>74% agreed that the U.S. government should actively work to promote human rights in other countries.<\/li>\n<li>When given a choice among the rights that the U.S. should promote, 51% ranked women\u2019s rights as first or second, second only to \u201cfree and open elections\u201d and ahead of freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and the rights of workers and unions.<\/li>\n<li>Two-thirds agreed that more participation by women would make the world more peaceful.<\/li>\n<li>Most respondents would support women\u2019s rights overseas even if that meant less consumer choice from international trade, fewer exports, or more disagreement with America\u2019s friends and allies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tischcollege.tufts.edu\/research\/pursuit-gender-equality-american-foreign-policy\">Click<\/a> for more detail from this survey of 1,000 Americans conducted in early September\u00a02017 by the Department of Political Science and the Tisch College of Civic Life. Credit to my colleagues\u00a0Professor Richard Eichenberg in the Political Science Department, Dr. Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg and Noorya Hayat of CIRCLE, and student Anna Jacobson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democratic-reform-overseas","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19198"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19210,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19198\/revisions\/19210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}