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 aĀ 30-point differencebetween the number of women age 18ā€“30 who self-identify as liberal and the number of men in that demographic who do the same.

Thatā€™s largely because young women have gottenĀ muchĀ more liberal, while young men have stayed ideologically more consistentā€”or, according to other analyses, become more conservativeĀ 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 vastĀ majority of AmericansĀ who identify as one or the other.) Itā€™s not happening just here either; the political divide between the sexes is a trend thatĀ researchers are observingĀ in some other countries too.

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    Wow thanks mate!


    I ended up using archive.is and they donā€™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 whatā€™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.

    Iā€™m so glad I had your snarky arse fucking response to help me realise what I already knew.

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        7 months ago

        You need some glasses there buddy? Clearly only the dotted light blue line is going up lately, with everyone else decreasing the last few years.