The Great Gender Divide: Globally, young women are becoming more liberal than men, but what about India?
Hindustan TimesNot so long ago, we’d look at generations as a whole. “In countries on every continent, an ideological gap has opened up between young men and women.” American women have become more liberal since the 1990s, finds a new Gallup poll and the shift is more evident among young women and senior women—up by 11 points. The similarities in career aspiration, they say, are “driven at least in part by the greater equality of opportunities between men and women.” It signals the “weakening of gendered norms in dictating career choices of women.” For instance, when it comes to dream careers, men and women with the same educational qualifications have strikingly similar aspirations. For instance, an equal number of men and women want to get married, but more women than men—70% to 62% of the 10,005 respondents across 184 towns and cities interviewed online--said they’d prefer love marriages. “Certainly, young women are becoming more politically inclined but women are still behind on a lot of parameters.” Understanding why Representational Image Two possible reasons are being offered for this gendered divergence.
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