It has long been the case that American women are generally more liberal than American men. But among young Americans, this gender gap has widened into an enormous rift: According to recent Gallup polling, there is a 30-point differencebetween the number of women age 18–30 who self-identify as liberal and the number of men in that demographic who do the same.
That’s largely because young women have gotten much more liberal, while young men have stayed ideologically more consistent—or, according to other analyses, become more conservative and anti-feminist. (Of course, not every person identifies as a man or woman. But gender roles still play a big part in shaping our lives and politics, and in the context of this column, I am focusing mostly on the vast majority of Americans who identify as one or the other.) It’s not happening just here either; the political divide between the sexes is a trend that researchers are observing in some other countries too.
Is this the same Gallup poll from a few months ago that showed that compared to a few years ago all women are getting more right wing except for older women, and the opposite for men yet was framed as such that men were trending right when it clearly didn’t actually show that?
I can’t tell because this article is paywalled, but I suspect it is.
In the future, copy the URL for the article that you cannot read and paste it into https://12ft.io/ and presto, no more paywall. Try it now. It’s actually easier than whining about paywalls. Then you too will be able to meaningfully participate in the debate.
Wow thanks mate!
I ended up using archive.is and they don’t even link to Gallup poll in the article!
So instead I googled to find the poll I had already seen last month and guess what’s it was exactly as I already knew it was.
Wow, the information I already knew pointing out the only group of women becoming more Liberal are older women was as I said it was.
Gee golly look at that, the data is very different from the premise of the article like I had said in my original post.
I’m so glad I had your snarky arse fucking response to help me realise what I already knew.
