2024-12-24
50 分钟Following the election, there have been many,
many arguments made about the growing gender gap between young men and young women.
That women are more likely to vote for Democrats has been a consistent feature of my entire life.
But this wasn't always the case.
In the year 2000,
political scientists Ronald Englehart and Pippa Norris released a paper establishing,
quote, gender differences in electoral behavior.
Basically, they showed that women had become a liberal force in small d Democratic politics.
That was a notable finding in the post war era.
Women were, on average, seen as a more conservative electoral factor.
But Norris and Englehart looked at more than 60 countries around the world and found
that from the early 80s through the mid-90s,
women had been moving to the left of men throughout advanced industrial societies.
They conclude that, quote, given the process of generational turnover,
this promises to have profound consequences for the future of the gender cleavage.
Moving women further left.
My name's Jerusalem Dempsys.
I'm a staff writer at the Atlantic.
And this is good on paper.
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