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Ideology gap increase between young men and women in various countries. (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

The important thing here is to know how did they measure young people's political ideologies. I wouldn't expect it was self-perceived as currently, people have a hard time admitting they are conservative compared to admitting they sympathize with a conservative party.

If it was determined by a questionnaire, it would be interesting to see what questions were included. Maybe the questions weren't well planned and that's it. Maybe they equalled feminist takes to ~~progressive~~ liberal ones, which is something that can be discussed. In this case, I would be picky about the origin of the graphics.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

This seems to be the original source of this graphic. But it just says "FT analysis of General Social Surveys of Korea, Germany & US [...]"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If the importance of women's issues like reproductive freedom were overrepresented relative to other issues, this would definitely account for at least part of this difference. But "importance" itself is already a very subjective concept. It's hard to put numbers on these things and create a scoring system that's actually useful.