Problem Statement
The purpose of this research was to examine young adults’ attitude and relevancy towards feminist/feminism. This research itself has meaning of exploring general viewpoints towards feminist/feminism from young adults and get to know more about how far the gender equity has achieved until this time. Feminism, as a social movement ideology started from groups of women, has attributed significant progress in women’s right and was successful to bring society’s attention to inequity between men and women since 1900s. Since then, we call women as feminist who are involved with such movements for gender inequity and women’s right. Depending on individual view and understanding of feminism, the title of feminist are used for both positive and negative way. Thus, this research addresses some topics: What is current young adults’ view of feminist/feminism? How does it relate to his/her engagement towards gender equity or women’s right? To examine these topics, qualitative data was collected and analyzed which was obtained from six individual person to person interviews and one focus group of 9 interviewees. The focus group was …show more content…
All authors conducted focus group together while I assisted the session as an observer, primarily taking notes of feedback to overall performance of the conductor and atmosphere of the focus group. The conductor asked research related questions with appropriate probes and follow up questions. Most of the questions were clear, short, and open ended. Additional questions were appropriately used to bring up further detailed conversations. When the conversation has ended, about 10 seconds were given by conductor every time to wait for possible response from other participants. The goal of a focus group was well achieved which is to have participants talk to each other, not the conductor. All the interviews were tape recorded and transcribed with every participants’
The purpose of this research was to examine young adults’ attitude and relevancy towards feminist/feminism. This research itself has meaning of exploring general viewpoints towards feminist/feminism from young adults and get to know more about how far the gender equity has achieved until this time. Feminism, as a social movement ideology started from groups of women, has attributed significant progress in women’s right and was successful to bring society’s attention to inequity between men and women since 1900s. Since then, we call women as feminist who are involved with such movements for gender inequity and women’s right. Depending on individual view and understanding of feminism, the title of feminist are used for both positive and negative way. Thus, this research addresses some topics: What is current young adults’ view of feminist/feminism? How does it relate to his/her engagement towards gender equity or women’s right? To examine these topics, qualitative data was collected and analyzed which was obtained from six individual person to person interviews and one focus group of 9 interviewees. The focus group was …show more content…
All authors conducted focus group together while I assisted the session as an observer, primarily taking notes of feedback to overall performance of the conductor and atmosphere of the focus group. The conductor asked research related questions with appropriate probes and follow up questions. Most of the questions were clear, short, and open ended. Additional questions were appropriately used to bring up further detailed conversations. When the conversation has ended, about 10 seconds were given by conductor every time to wait for possible response from other participants. The goal of a focus group was well achieved which is to have participants talk to each other, not the conductor. All the interviews were tape recorded and transcribed with every participants’