The Political Gender Gap is Exploding

Changing patterns of religious identity, education, and marital status may be responsible for the growing divide

In my latest piece for FiveThirtyEight, I wrote about the shifting trajectory of public opinion on abortion and how young people today, particularly young women, are notably more supportive of abortion rights than previous generations of young adults. There’s also a growing political rift between men and women. Young women today are much more liberal th…