Anonymous
7/24/2025, 11:56:05 PM
No.511366954
7/24/2025, 11:56:05 PM
No.511366954
>>511366940
It's not just women.
>Recent surveys have shown increasing polarization between young men and women in the West. Yet, little is known about whether or how this manifests among teenagers. Drawing on a unique dataset of 130,000 Norwegian high school students (aged 15-18) interviewed in the period 1989-2023, I show that the gender gap in left-right ideology has surged over the past 10 years, reaching its highest recorded level (twice as high as among young adults). I argue that this development is driven in large part by a new wave of politically potent anti-feminism among boys. A growing percentage of boys believe that ‘gender equality has gone too far’, which is increasingly associated with right-wing identification. Employing a decomposition analysis, I estimate that the gender equality issue accounts for 40-50% of the increased polarization between boys and girls. This result does not appear to be explained by reversed causality (i.e. parties persuading long-time supporters).
https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/7z2va
It's not just women.
>Recent surveys have shown increasing polarization between young men and women in the West. Yet, little is known about whether or how this manifests among teenagers. Drawing on a unique dataset of 130,000 Norwegian high school students (aged 15-18) interviewed in the period 1989-2023, I show that the gender gap in left-right ideology has surged over the past 10 years, reaching its highest recorded level (twice as high as among young adults). I argue that this development is driven in large part by a new wave of politically potent anti-feminism among boys. A growing percentage of boys believe that ‘gender equality has gone too far’, which is increasingly associated with right-wing identification. Employing a decomposition analysis, I estimate that the gender equality issue accounts for 40-50% of the increased polarization between boys and girls. This result does not appear to be explained by reversed causality (i.e. parties persuading long-time supporters).
https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/7z2va