Response Options and Feminism

How many women consider themselves to be a feminist?

Feminist self-identification was the subject of a recent BBC article by Dr Christina Scharff (King’s College London).

On social media, Kate Andrews (Institute for Economic Affairs) said that 90% of British women don’t consider themselves to be feminists. In response, the barrister Jessica Simor QC said that figure was actually 66%.

Which is correct: do one in ten or one in three British women consider themselves to be feminist?

10% or 34%?

When a Conservative leadership candidate was questioned about feminism, Kate Andrews (Institute for Economic Affairs) wrote that:

The *90% of women* who don’t identify as feminist won’t have viewed it that way.

The barrister Jessica Simor QC replied that the figure was actually 66%, citing Dr Scharff’s BBC article.

Ms Andrews then stated:

No, I meant to say 90% (I think it’s just over 90% to be exact). What [Jessica Simor QC] has done is crop out the lead story in a BBC article about 2019 data and only share a poll quoted further down in the article that is from 2018. Very poor form.