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Public Attitudes on Gender Equality & Policy Survey

Measures how people perceive progress on gender equality, which policy issues they think deserve attention, and whether they've personally experienced unfair treatment. Built for researchers, advocacy groups, and pollsters tracking public opinion, with an AI follow-up that digs into the personal reasoning and lived experience behind the numbers.

Sample questions

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15 questions · ~8 min
Q01
Message

Thanks for taking part in this study on gender equality and public policy. Your honest views help researchers understand where people actually stand. There are no right answers, and you can skip anything you'd rather not answer. About 6 minutes.

Q02
Multiple ChoiceRequired

In the last month, how much attention have you paid to news or discussion about gender equality issues (workplace, politics, family, etc.)?

  • None at all
  • A little
  • A moderate amount
  • A great deal
Q03
Opinion ScaleRequired

Overall, how much progress do you think has been made toward gender equality in your country over the last decade?

Scale: 17
Min:Much worse / no progressMax:Major progress
Q04
MatrixRequired

How much do you agree or disagree with each statement?

4 rows × 5 columns
  • Men and women should have equal access to leadership roles
  • Traditional gender roles still provide useful guidance for family life
  • Workplace policies should accommodate caregiving responsibilities regardless of gender
  • Closing the gender pay gap should be a policy priority
Columns: Strongly disagree · Disagree · Neutral · Agree · Strongly agree
Q05
Multiple Choice

In the past year, which of these gender-related policy topics have you followed news coverage or discussion about? Select all that apply.

  • Pay equity / equal pay laws
  • Paid parental leave policies
  • Workplace harassment protections
  • Reproductive rights and healthcare access
  • Political representation for women
  • Protections for transgender individuals
  • Domestic violence and safety protections
Q06
Best–Worst Trade-off (MaxDiff)Required

Among these gender-related policy issues, which deserves the most attention from policymakers right now, and which deserves the least?

  • Pay equity / equal pay
  • Paid parental leave
  • Workplace harassment protections
  • Reproductive rights and healthcare access
  • Political representation for women
  • Protections for transgender individuals
  • Domestic violence and safety protections
  • Access to affordable childcare
Pick best & worst per setBest:Deserves the most attentionWorst:Deserves the least attention
Q07
Opinion ScaleRequired

How much do you support or oppose a national paid parental leave policy that applies equally regardless of gender?

Scale: 15
Min:Strongly opposeMax:Strongly support
Q08
Multiple Choice

In the past 12 months, have you personally experienced treatment you felt was unfair because of your gender?

  • Yes, frequently
  • Yes, occasionally
  • No
  • Not sure
Q09
AI Interview

Explore the reasoning behind the respondent's top-priority policy issue from the trade-off ranking: ask for a concrete example or story that shaped their view, and probe what specific change would signal real progress to them. If they reported personally experiencing unfair treatment based on gender, gently ask what happened and how it shaped their views on the priority issues. If their answers seem in tension (for example, seeing major progress on equality but ranking every policy issue as urgent), surface that tension respectfully and ask them to reconcile it.

Q10
Message

Now just a few background questions to help us compare responses across groups. All are optional.

Q11
Multiple Choice

What is your gender identity?

  • Woman
  • Man
  • Non-binary
  • Prefer not to say
Q12
Multiple Choice

What is your age range?

  • Under 18
  • 18-24
  • 25-34
  • 35-44
  • 45-54
  • 55-64
  • 65+
  • Prefer not to say
Q13
Multiple Choice

How would you describe your political leaning?

  • Very liberal/left
  • Somewhat liberal/left
  • Moderate/center
  • Somewhat conservative/right
  • Very conservative/right
  • Prefer not to say
Q14
Multiple Choice

What is the highest level of education you have completed?

  • High school or less
  • Some college
  • Bachelor's degree
  • Graduate or professional degree
  • Prefer not to say
Q15
Message

Thank you for sharing your views. Your responses will be combined with others (anonymously) to help researchers and policymakers understand where public opinion on gender equality really stands.

What’s included

  • AI follow-ups

    Adaptive probes on open-ended answers that pull out detail a static form would miss.

  • Attention checks

    Built-in safeguards against rushed answers and low-quality respondents.

  • AI-drafted copy

    Wording, ordering, and branching written by the AI — tuned to your research goal.

  • Auto report

    Themes, quotes, and a plain-English summary write themselves once responses come in.

How it compares

We reviewed the closest templates from other survey tools. Here’s what they do well — and where this template goes further.

Why this template

  • Goes beyond static rating questions with an AI follow-up interview that probes the reasoning behind each respondent's top-priority policy issue, capturing lived experience in their own words
  • Combines structured measurement (opinion scales, matrix agreement, max-diff prioritization) with an open-ended personal-treatment question, so quantitative and qualitative data come from the same respondent
  • Includes demographic questions (gender identity, age, political leaning, education) needed to compare subgroups, framed transparently to respondents as being used for comparison across groups
  • Prompts and follow-up logic are transparent and reviewable, and results roll up into an auto-generated report rather than a raw export you have to analyze yourself

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What it does well

  • Easy to customize and brand within Jotform's form builder
  • Fast to deploy for basic data collection
  • Familiar interface for respondents

Where it falls short

  • Static question set with no adaptive follow-up to probe individual reasoning
  • No built-in AI interview or voice interview capability
  • No automated per-response quality scoring or research-oriented reporting

SurveyMonkey

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What it does well

  • Backed by a mature survey platform with wide respondent panel access
  • Built-in analytics dashboards for aggregate reporting
  • Established brand trusted for public opinion research

Where it falls short

  • No adaptive AI follow-up questions to explore why respondents hold particular views
  • No voice AI interview option for richer qualitative capture
  • Prompt/methodology transparency is not published for its templates

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What it does well

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  • Offered within a broader survey platform with standard question types
  • Positioned as a reference guide for constructing this kind of survey

Where it falls short

  • No adaptive AI interview or guided follow-up on lived experience, just static sample questions
  • No automated quality scoring of open-ended responses
  • No auto-generated report tying qualitative reasoning to quantitative results

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