Explorations and explanations of youth gender gaps in political behaviour

Abstract

Are young men and women growing apart in their political attitudes, vote choice and left-right ideology; and if so, why? The papers in this panel use a field experiment in Spain, and survey data analyses on Germany and several European countries to investigate parts of this question. The papers investigate (1) how different framings of gender equality in school teaching shape adolescents’ gender equality attitudes, (2) to what extent there are gender and age differences in voting, ideology, and attitudes towards LGBTQ+ rights, immigration and climate change, (3) to what extent social or economic attitudes affect gender and generational differences in voting, (4) whether young men’s and women’s attitudes towards gender-related issues help explain ideological left-right divides between them, and (5) to what extent generational and gender differences in right-wing voting are explained by ideology, gender equality attitudes, hostile sexism, and identification with masculinity and femininity.

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Polarized by Gender and Sexuality Issues. Explaining the Youth Gender Gap in Ideological Orientation.	View Paper Details
Sexism and the Right-Wing Vote: The Generation Z Gender Gap in Europe	View Paper Details
Growing Apart: Unpacking the Mechanisms Behind the Youth Gender Gap	View Paper Details
The Emerging Gender Gap: Cross-National Evidence on Attitudinal and Voting Shifts	View Paper Details
Gender-generation gaps and progressivism: The relationship between values and vote choice	View Paper Details