America's Deep Rift on Gender Issues
New polling reveals how partisanship affects people’s views of the roles of men and women.
The headline on the big new gender survey from the Pew Research Center begins, “On Gender Differences, No Consensus”— and that could have been the report’s entire conclusion, too. The survey, released today, reveals deep divides in Americans’ perspectives on gender norms, including by political affiliation:
- Republican men are more likely to consider themselves “very masculine” than Democratic men are. Republican women are also slightly more, Democrats were more likely than Republicans to say that changes to traditional gender norms have led to a host of benefits, like success at work and and in marriage.
