This statistic shows the share of Americans who believed sexism to be common in the United States, by race/ethnicity, as of July 2016. In July 2016, 48 percent of black respondents felt sexism was very common. In contrast, 32 percent of white respondents held the identical view.
Americans views on the prevalence of sexism in 2016, by race
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