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The Linked Fate Survey

Money and connection: a short survey from The Women's Economy

This survey asks how money moves through women's lives and how connected you feel to other people. It takes about 6 minutes. There are no right answers.

It's anonymous. We don't collect your name, email, or IP address. Skip any question you like. Near the end we ask about background, including politics, and all of that is optional.

What happens next. We'll publish the combined results, the full question list, and how we analyzed them, whatever they show. Any errors go in our public correction log. We may quote short written answers with identifying details removed, and we won't publish anything that could identify you.

This survey is not a representative sample of American women, and we'll say so when we publish.

By continuing, you confirm you're 18 or older and agree to take part.

Part 1: Who's answering

Q1. Are you 18 or older and living in the United States?

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Q2. Do you identify as a woman?

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Part 2: Shared fate

Q3. Do you think that what happens generally to women in this country will have something to do with what happens in your life?

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Q4. (If yes) Will it affect you a lot, some, or not very much?

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Q5. Do you think that what happens generally to men in this country will have something to do with what happens in your life?

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Q6. (If yes) Will it affect you a lot, some, or not very much?

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Q7. How much do you agree or disagree?
a. When things get better for women in this country, my life gets better too.

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b. When women in this country are hurt, I am hurt too.

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c. When things get better financially for the men in my family, my life gets better too.

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d. When women-owned businesses do well, I do better too.

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e. I would give up some money or convenience if it helped other women get ahead.

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Part 3: Your own money

Q8. Who brings in most of your household's income?

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Q9. Whose name are most of your savings and investments in?

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Q10. If all other income stopped tomorrow, how long could you cover basic expenses with money you alone control?

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Part 4: Money between women

Q11. Think of the last 10 businesses or professionals you paid. How many do you know were owned by a woman?

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Q12. In the past 12 months, has a woman outside your family done any of these for you? (Select all)

Q13. In the past 12 months, have you done any of these for a woman outside your family? (Select all)

Q14. Do you belong to any of these women-only groups? (Select all)

Q15. What is the biggest barrier to shopping women-owned brands?

Q16. Would you use an app that identified women-owned brands at point of purchase?

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Q15. Do you own a business?

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Part 5: Business owners only

Q16. Roughly what share of your business spending goes to women-owned vendors?

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Q17. Roughly what share of your customers are women?

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Part 6: Your views

Q19. It's generally better for a family if the man is the main earner.

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Q20. When women gain economically, men tend to lose.

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Q21. I pay attention to who owns the businesses I buy from.

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Part 7: Background (all optional)

Q22. Are you:

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Q23. (If married or partnered) Your spouse or partner is:

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Q24. Which describes you? (Select all)

Q25. Your age:

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Q26. Highest education:

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Q27. Would you describe yourself as a born-again or evangelical Christian?

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Q28. Generally speaking, do you think of yourself as a:

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Q29. Do children under 18 live in your home?

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Q30. What was your own income last year before taxes, including any business income?

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Q31. Where do you live?

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Q32. (Optional, open text) Whose financial future do you feel yours is most tied to, and why? Please leave out names.

Q33. (Optional) To let us match your answers next year without knowing who you are, make a code: first letter of your mother's first name + your birth month + the last digit of your birth year.