A new global gender divide is emerging. That’s the title of a Financial Times article that sparked conversations in the past days. Compiling surveys from countries like US, UK, Germany, and South Korea, it argued that attitudes of young men and women, so-called Gen Z, are drifting further apart from each other. Men are now more conservative and far right, while women are more liberal and left. Implications for democracies and societies could be significant.

Why is this happening? We answer with Gefjon Off, Ph.D., a researcher of Gender and Politics at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg.

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