Men and women have long behaved differently in political sphere, with men tend to vote Republican and women to support their Democratic. These differences were not historically valid for people aged 18 to 29 years. For many years, both younger men and women had a clear inclination to the left.

The latest Harvard youth poll makes it clear that there are now distinct political differences that separate men and women 18-29.

Generation Z men, who were shocked by economic and social crises and influenced by the Coronovirus pandemic, moved to the right, supporting Donald Trump against the then Vice -President and a candidate for President for 2024, Kamala Harris. And they continue to favor Republicans. Women aged 18 – 29 years have reacted differently to the events that shaped their generation – political, socially, philosophical – and as a result they have clearly more liberal sensitivities.

The consequences of these different political paths are a divided new electorate, which is affected by the same gender polarization that usually characterizes the greatest voters. In other words, the Gen z He has … old prematurely, at least at a political level.

“One of the biggest things we’ve seen with gender separation is really the way men and women have diverged ideologically,” said Jordan Schwartz, a second year student in the Harvard and president of the Harvard Public Opinion Project, during an information on the revelation of the 50th youth investigation of the Harvard Institute of Political Institute. Schwartz added that young men turning to the right and young women at the same time staying or moving left have created a “huge gap” in Harvard’s polls, explaining that this gender gap has “opened in recent years”.

It seems that today’s young men were deeply influenced by a cataract of socially destabilizing events during the formative years of their upbringing, from the Great Recession to its Pandemic COVID. These feelings made the men of Generation Z dislike the government and institutions, making the subversive Trump and his promises of the upcoming “Golden Age of America” ​​more attractive than his opponents.

Specifically, Harvard’s data suggest that younger female voters have not emerged from the same destabilizing experiences with the same social insecurities.

Harvard’s poll has shown that more Gen Z women than men feel socially “connected”. She showed that women were slightly more “confident” that they would eventually have a home. He showed that they were much more confident that they would eventually find “a long-term romantic partner; and research showed that women aged 18-29 are more confident than men of similar age to eventually marry.

“The experiences of young men and young women through the pandemic were different. It seems that young women have recovered a little better, they have stronger social networks, “said Melissa Deckman, the author of the The Politics of Gen Z and Managing Director of Public Religion Research Institute, a non -party thinking tank in Washington. “For some young men, studies show that they are more socially isolated than young women.”

Pistsm and analysts downgrade Trump’s provocative behavior as a factor in sexual division into young people. No matter how annoying Trump is, young voters care more about politics than personality and are likely to attribute their verdict to the president based on their perception of his performance in the issues they are interested in.

“It’s been almost 10 years since Trump got off the rolling staircase, and so for young people, this is the only policy they know,” said Meredith Shiner, a communication consultant in Chicago and Lecturer in the Chicago University who teaches a master’s degree in public policy and communications. “It’s not just an approach, it’s a policy.”

Other surveys and analyzes also show that differences in party preferences between younger men and women voters are due to more issues.

Last September, the Gallup He has published “Exploring Young Women’s Leftward Expansion”, concluding that “much higher percentages” of 18-29-year-old women voters have “prevailing liberal perspectives” on key issues than women of the same age group 10 years ago, especially for abortion rights, arms rights. Gen Z women have also become “more liberal” in terms of “death penalty, healthcare policy, labor unions, taxes, government regulations and Israeli-Palestinian conflict”.

Meanwhile, Gen Z men have either turned right or have moved left much less than their female counterparts.

The expanding gap is also due to different issues of ranking men and women of this age group.