YOUTH 2020 - The position of young people in Slovenia

General trends in young people’s values and attitudes  53 We also asked our respondents how strongly they agree or disagree with the statement that men are, in general, worse parents than women. Only a minority agree with the claim (6.3% agree somewhat or fully), but in relative terms men agree with the statement much more (9.2%) than women (2.8%). Similarly, men (29.4%) are muchmore likely than women (20.6%) to agree with the statement that the majority of household chores is naturally more befitting of a woman. This suggests a clear pat- tern of male bias towards traditional household gender roles. Interest- ingly, however, women today have seen a bigger relative increase in agreement with the statement (from 17.4% to 20.6%) than have men (from 28.8% to 29.4%). Attitudinal trends regarding family life are divergent. On the one hand, we have been witnessing a strong liberalizing current. Young people today reject obedience as a value when raising children much more than they did in 2010, and they are much more accepting of same-sex parenting. On the other hand, we have seen a slight uptick in the re-traditionalization of the gendered division of labour within the family. 1.4  VALUES AND BELIEFS REGARDING GENDER IDENTITY Contemporary debates about young people’s gender identities typically have to do with the various identities that transcend the simple binary division “man/woman”. Gender identity – the feelings and personal be- liefs an individual has about their own gender – is not a direct expres- sion of the male or female biological sex, which means that gender iden- tities are fluid and multiple. That is why we offered respondents in our study the possibility of choosing “Other” when answering even our most basic question regarding gender. Among the 1200 respondents, no- body picked “Other”. This is a fascinating finding, which suggests that in a representative sample of Slovenian youth there is no subgroup of