MOSCOW, March 20. /TASS/. More than half of Russia’s citizens believe it is vital to strive for equal rights (62%) and responsibilities (59%) between men and women, according to the results of a poll by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center published on Wednesday.

The survey says "62% of Russians believe it is necessary to pursue full gender equality, while 59% of the respondents say that the same should be true for equality of responsibilities," the research center reports.

At the same time, the poll shows that in Russian society there isn’t a unified position on whether gender equality is possible in various spheres of life. Almost half of the respondents (42%) believe that gender equality is possible in only specific spheres, while 13% rejected this notion.

According to the Russian Public Opinion Research Center data, 31% of Russians support the feminist movement, which strives for equality of political, economic, social and personal rights for the sexes, while 22% responded that they "categorically oppose" it.

The poll was conducted by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center together with Sputnik countrywide on March 10 2019 via telephone interview with 1,600 people aged 18 years and over. The margin of sampling error does not exceed 2.5% with a 95% probability.