YOUTH 2020 - The position of young people in Slovenia

58 Figure 1.12: Perception of discrimination based on sex, broken down by sex. How would you feel if any of the following families or persons moved into your neighbourhood? (Combined »Bad« and »Very bad« answers) 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% Western European family A homosexual individual or couple Roma family Refugees 19.9 21.8 61.9 60.5 7.2 13.2 52.8 56.3 0% 2018 2020 Source: YSEE 2018/2019, Mladina 2020 Here, however, gender differences in perception of discrimination are sub- stantially larger. Only 19% of men felt discriminated against based on of their gender, while among women the share is 41%. Contrary to what we expected, additional analyses do not demonstrate women feeling more discriminated against based on their gender if they visit social media more often. Nevertheless, we did find a strong correlation between feeling discriminated against and time spent writing personal opinions on blogs and social media for both genders (the correlation is even stronger with men than women). We suspect a selection effect might be at work here: those individuals that take the time to comment online are alsomore sen- sitive to discrimination and thus perceive it more than the others.