Recent analyses suggest a growing ideological gender gap within Gen Z, with young women's political priorities solidifying while young men's priorities appear to be less defined. The #MeToo movement has been influential in young women's political development. Young women raised in Republican households are less likely to identify as Republican as adults compared to young men. Surveys show young men are less likely than women to prioritize specific political issues. The proliferation of smartphones and social media has led to young men and women inhabiting separate spaces and experiencing separate cultures. The divergence in political views is evident in various countries, such as Poland and Brazil. The collapse of fertility rates in Sweden challenges the narrative of gender-egalitarian social policies. Social media algorithms have amplified natural personality differences between sexes in young impressionable users. The dominant liberal culture in developed countries has been perceived as increasingly hostile to men and masculinity, leading young men to adjust their political views.
It's not rocket science: Over the course of the past few decades, the dominant liberal culture in most developed countries has become increasingly hostile to men and masculinity. Men — particularly young men — are adjusting their political priors accordingly. https://t.co/ziVKE96Uuh
Hey Gen Z, I promise you aren’t aging like milk https://t.co/KQalF7xsud
This how I visualize this problem: Terminally-online tribalism has carved out a kind of psychic ulcer in the collective consciousness of young people. Community has been subsumed by this ulcer. To treat the ulcer, for both men and women, you need a foundation of community. 1/ https://t.co/9VH4ujgLgg
'I feel like the state has taken over and devalued fatherhood so much that men are no longer really required.' Former Member of the European Parliament, @BelindadeLucy, says 'we need to look at the culture of men taking care of children.' https://t.co/wOCikuALTW
Is Gen-Z ageing like milk? TikTok thinks so. As a millennial, I was excited to get @brad_polumbo's take on this and, it turns out, there may be a darker reason for why. 📺https://t.co/y9wRvQyNm2 https://t.co/7zqNEeBcjP
Sweden was long seen as the model of family-friendly, gender-egalitarian social policy, showing that you could maintain near-replacement fertility without sacrificing feminism. But the latest figures call that narrative into question, argues @darelmass: https://t.co/75Ske2EEC3
A huge gender divide among the very youngest voters in the 2023 elections in Poland: 46% of men expressed a preference for the far-right anti-immigrant Confederation party, while just 16% of women did. https://t.co/lrmRGO5c25
Social media algorithms latch onto existing personal preferences, and then amplifies them by feeding the user more & more of that content. No surprise that process has also amplified the natural personality differences between sexes, especially in young impressionable users. https://t.co/xNQEXhmxGL
More on the Gen Z gender polarization gap… MeToo created solidarity and frustration among young women. Young men apparently barely noticed. And young men also apparently (and wrongly) see “better for women” as bad for them. https://t.co/O7Br05VBdk
Belief in the power of gender egalitarianism and the dual-earner/dual-carer model to (re)produce the family has been standard for a generation. Now the feminist model of the family itself has fallen into crisis. https://t.co/b8731aPRr8
Sweden has long been touted by social scientists as proof of the compatibility between gender egalitarianism and family formation. But the collapse of fertility there suggests otherwise, says @darelmass: https://t.co/75Ske2EEC3
Both takes could be right: The internet arguably creates increasingly sex-segregated silos but the silos aren't actual private spaces, you can see inside more male-coded and female-coded conversations and be alienated from the opposite sex by what you see: https://t.co/mK3dMMlBLr
I don't have the numbers, but you can also clearly see this divergence happening in Brazil. Average boys and young guys are way more likely to be against the liberal mainstream and to support conservative parties than girls and young women. https://t.co/1bG8V0ZOrw
Sweden is the country that was supposed to prove (to liberals) that going full gender egalitarian, combined generous family policy, guarantees replacement-level fertility. Last year's declines were disastrous to that worldview. https://t.co/b8731aPRr8
“Young women are very progressive, young men are surprisingly conservative. “Gen Z is two generations, not one.” https://t.co/uGjBxEmxC5
The politiical gender gap in Gen Z yawns wide: In Poland last year, almost half of men aged 18-21 backed the hard-right Confederation party, compared to just a sixth of young women of the same age. https://t.co/YAPys4sBJq https://t.co/88CSBl7xHx
"The proliferation of smartphones and social media mean that young men and women now increasingly inhabit separate spaces and experience separate cultures." Life after Babel. https://t.co/xtkjyhFHnR
"Gen Z is two generations, not one" - remarkable and worrying analysis from @jburnmurdoch @FT https://t.co/fXq7m9OYSK
An ideological gender gap appears to be emerging within Gen Z, and the consequences could be far-reaching, writes @jburnmurdoch https://t.co/nkWeZpaY5r https://t.co/GhCWfVHsIK
A new global gender divide is emerging with young men and young women’s world views pulling apart - @jburnmurdoch column here https://t.co/rtuV5apKuK
"A new global gender divide is emerging" Excellent analysis by @jburnmurdoch https://t.co/Aeg6nS4ogl https://t.co/kXMfNwztQl
"As women's political priorities have solidified, young men's priorities have melted into mush. Surveys consistently show that young men are far less likely than women to say any particular issue is personally important to them." https://t.co/RYIXg1Z2yp
"Young women raised in Republican households are far less likely than young men to identify as Republican as adults. Less than half (44 percent) of young women with Republican parents report that they are Republican compared to two-thirds (67 percent) of young men." (1/2) https://t.co/Xjo2geJVoM
"at no time in the past quarter century has there been such a rapid divergence between the views of young men and women. … among women, no event was more influential to their political development than the #MeToo movement." https://t.co/P6xnN23auy