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On Zoomer gender and politics.

Young women and young men are voting very different from each other – and this is happening across very different countries, from the UK to Tunisia to South Korea to Brazil. Why is there this crossover between gender and ideology?

Have women become more 'progressive' as they've gained equality?

Are young men staging a backlash against #MeToo?

Are young women more responsible for wokeness?

Has politics itself changed, so that left and right are culturally and gender coded?

How was it different in the 1950s, or the 1980s?

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A new global gender divide is emerging, John Burn-Murdoch, FT (pdf attached)

Thread on X by John Burn-Murdoch

Thread with country-level data from Morten N. Støstad

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Lauri Franzon

I've only listened to the first couple of minutes, but here are my immidiate thoughts on the gender gap in France and Italy: (presumably not Francoist Spain) In the party politics of the 1950's and 1960's in Italy and France, being right meant supporting the socially conservative and paternalistic christian democrats (later the Gaullists in France), whereas being left largely meant supporting the Communist party. The latter is easy to see as the riskier, anti-establishment choice, and thus this trend is consistent with the well known average gender difference when it comes to risk-taking and conflict aversion. Nowadays it is easy to see that the tables have turned: Being liberal in the broad sense is the pro-establishment position, and being conservative is the anti-establishment position. It is arguable though that the current gender divide goes deeper than that, being also tied to the class interests of the increasingly female professional class, to the fate of traditional male-dominated industries, etc. Looking forward to listening to this discussion!

Joshua Baker

Excellent conversation. Thanks all!!!

Mads Vindal

This is so interesting! However, as someone coming from Denmark I must insist that this trend is also very much emerging in Scandinavia. The past month it has been extensively debated that young men are increasingly orientated toward the right and young women to the left. The trend may just have begun later here.