John Burn-Murdoch@jburnmurdoch
Feb 2, 2024
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This is an absolutely fascinating paper from @Rosalind Shorrocks on the evolving political gender gap across countries and time, putting forward a very interesting theory that a lot of the shift can be explained by the decline of religiosity journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11
The key insight is that women have always been more [economically] left-wing than men, but that women were also more religious (both vs today and vs men) and that this was a moderating force against those left-wing views.
With religion in retreat, those views now take voice.
And @Rosalind Shorrocks also has an excellent thread here summarising a lot of recent research on the gender divide among young people, the specific issues where the gap is most pronounced, how stable (or unstable) the trend is, and much more twitter.com/RosieShorrocks
Rosalind Shorrocks@RosieShorrocks
Feb 02 24
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Given the renewed interest in political gender gaps, especially amongst younger voters, I thought I'd place these debates in context and link to a few pieces by myself and others which have investigated these questions in Britain and beyond... 1/12
John Burn-Murdoch
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