# **_Comparing the Country Rank of Gender Beliefs in the Future of Business and World Values Surveys_**

In Table D1 we compare the ranking of countries using the gender equality norms measures within the Future of Business (FoB) survey with a similar normative statement on gender equality in the nationally representative World Values Survey (WVS) for the sample of countries that can be found in both surveys (29 countries = 68% of sample).<sup>5</sup> To run the correlation we first aggregate within a country the percentage who agree with the statement and then define quintiles of the country’s rank within the WVS and the FoB survey. Where a quintile rank of 1 is least progressive to 5 is most progressive. We then examine whether there are any discrepancies of how a country would rank in terms of gender progressiveness across the two surveys by taking the difference in the rank. A difference of 0 in the rank suggests that particular country falls in the same quintile rank in the FoB and the WVS.

While the WVS does not include a community norm construct we also compare how the perceived community norms in the FoB sample correlate with the individual beliefs in the WVS by comparing where a country would rank across both surveys. For example, Argentina would rank in the 4<sup>th</sup> quintile in terms of progressiveness in both the FoB and the WVS in survey respondents’ individual beliefs. However, Argentinian men and women in the FoB survey perceive their community as less progressive than the aggregated beliefs from the WVS (they are one quintile lower in rank than the WVS).

Overall, in Table D1 we show a strong correlation in the rank with the Future of Business survey norms measures and the World Values Survey. Men’s individual beliefs in the FoB are, on average, very similar to those reported by men in the WVS. The outlier countries in terms of men’s individual beliefs include the Netherlands, The United States of America and Taiwan, China who have a differential rank greater than 1 quintile. That is, men in the Netherlands and The United States of America who respond to the Future of Business Survey are less progressive than those that responded to the WVS; and men in Taiwan in the FoB are more gender progressive than in WVS. In terms of women’s individual beliefs, although there appears to be little variation in the percentage who agree with the gender equality statement, the correlation in the ranking of countries between the FoB and WVS is strong. Turkish women are the greatest outlier where the women responding to the FoB are, on average, 4 quintiles more gender progressive than those responding to the WVS. Similarly, perceived community norms as reported by both men and women in the Future of Business correlate strongly with the actual beliefs in the WVS. This suggests that reports from men and women in the FoB accurately reflect perceptions on gender equality in their communities. Men and women in the Philippines responding to the FoB generally perceive their community as more progressive than the beliefs revealed in the WVS.

As a robustness check for the results showed in Tables 7a and 7b in the main paper we rerun the same analysis excluding the countries with a differential rank of 2 quintiles or more between the FoB and WVS results in Tables D2a and D2b to show that the results are not simply driven by sample selection of respondents into the FoB survey.

> 5 The indicator from the WVS is “men should have more right to a job than women do.”

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