Young women are more liberal than they’ve been in decades. That's according to a Gallup analysis of more than 20 years of polling data.

Young women are more liberal than they have been in decades, according to a Gallup analysis of more than 20 years of polling data.

Over the past few years, about 4 in 10 young women between the ages of 18 and 29 have described their political views as liberal, compared with two decades ago when about 3 in 10 identified that way.

For many young women, their liberal identity is not just a new label. The share of young women who hold liberal views on the environment, abortion, race relations and gun laws has also jumped by double digits, Gallup found.

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Topic:

    Women are voting more liberally because they don’t like conservative positions on abortion, guns, and the environment.

    Weird dudes in this thread:

    “Men are being left behind!”

    —-

    Wut.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I understand how abortion and guns can/do have a womens exclusive perspective, but how is the environment a womens issue? By environment you mean things like climate change and pollution, right?

      I can understand how liberals vs progressives would have different views…but I’m not grasping how men vs women would.

      • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        There’s a sense of “Caring about nature is effeminate and for wusses” in toxic masculinity.

        • Throw_away_migrator@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          Which I find extremely odd, since some traditionally masculine activities are nature oriented. Hunting, fishing, outdoorsy stuff in general. It wasn’t that long ago that (environmental) conservation was a huge component of those activities to ensure continued access for people to those activities. Maybe it still is but I certainly don’t get that impression as strongly anymore.

          • alienghic@slrpnk.netEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Take it up with men and current gender stereotypes.

            “The research, conducted with three other colleagues, consisted of seven experiments involving more than 2,000 American and Chinese participants. We showed that there is a psychological link between eco-friendliness and perceptions of femininity. Due to this “green-feminine stereotype,” both men and women judged eco-friendly products, behaviors, and consumers as more feminine than their non-green counterparts. In one experiment, participants of both sexes described an individual who brought a reusable canvas bag to the grocery store as more feminine than someone who used a plastic bag—regardless of whether the shopper was a male or female. In another experiment, participants perceived themselves to be more feminine after recalling a time when they did something good versus bad for the environment.”

            https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/men-resist-green-behavior-as-unmanly/

            It’s likely using nature is coded as masculine, while showing you care about nature is coded feminine.

  • cuban_Pete@lemy.lol
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    2 months ago

    Not surprised, society is failing young men hard.

    Men are worse off today than previous generations, yet at every step they’re villainized. Meanwhile they see everyone else being empowered and advocated, while they get left behind and yelled at.

    And tonedeaf people will see this post and think it’s men complaining that women are getting empowered, not men complaining that they’re being failed by society.

    Hardly inspiring.

    Edit: And so the downvoting begins, by all means keep burying your head into the sand. Who could ever know why men aren’t becoming as progressive as women, guess we will never know! Every refusal to acknowledge the issue, is cause for it to grow bigger.

      • Eheran@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        How is what he says irrelevant? Perhaps it shows some bitterness. But what he says is overall correct. Just look at the stats, not just in the USA. PISA results

        girls outperformed boys in reading by almost 30 score points, on average across OECD countries (Figure II.7.1). While girls outperformed boys in reading in every participating country

        I have seen a bunch of special programs for woman (like to get them into STEM) over the years. But not even one for men. And special help for the boys quoted above? Nope.

        This is not a men vs women things, it’s about everyone getting the help etc. they need, regardless of who they are. Rich, poor, male, female: Should all not matter.