Financial Times reports on the increasingly spectacular side effect of gender equality pursued by the great powers, citing a Stanford researcher.

"Generation AZ boys and men consider feminism to be harmful in a higher proportion than boomers"

Guardian reports on a recent British survey.

While in the past decades liberal and conservative worldviews were more or less equally divided between the sexes, today in the United States women between the ages of 18 and 30 are 30 percentage points more liberal than their male contemporaries.

This gap has been created in just six years," the Financial Times points out.

What we could still wave at, saying that this is the problem of the Americans, but there is also a continuation: in Germany, the difference between increasingly conservative men and increasingly progressive women is also 30 percentage points, in the United Kingdom it is 25 percentage points.

In Poland, nearly half of men aged 18-21 voted for the radical right-wing Confederation, while only one-sixth of women of the same age voted.

In South Korea, the ideological difference has increased to around 50 percentage points (which does not bode well for the improvement of the current fertility rate of 0.72), but China and Tunisia are said to be following a similar pattern - and this gaping gap is consistently only seen among those under the age of 30. but at least in their circle it is much wider than for those over 30.

According to experts, the root cause may have been the #MeToo movement, but the division regarding the specific topic of harassment has now grown into more comprehensive, massive camps of experts: young women from the USA to Germany take a far more left-wing position regarding immigration and racial justice.

The trend is something like girls and women are marching further and further to the left, while men typically stay where they are -

although in Germany a shift to the right can also be observed in their case, which the Spiegel (professor at CEU) explains by saying that for insecure men, the right wing "offering a traditional family model" provides some kind of security and status, while young women, especially highly educated ones, " they no longer want to go back to that fading world".

In response to the Spiegel journalist's question about "how to pull the drifting men back into the boat" (which, according to them, the boat must move to the left), the expert considers training, training and training as the solution, pointing out at the same time the "cosmopolitans of the left-liberal camp" showing also for the risk of intolerance:

if a person despises the traditional worldview, then with this arrogance he makes the exchange of ideas impossible

- and according to the CEU professor, it is right that if there is more and more talk about, for example, sexual minorities, and if ten percent of intellectuals are constantly talking about their own topics, then more and more people feel that they are ignored.

In line with this, a right-wing expert at the Washington-based think tank Carnegie Endowment for International Peace recently

With the title "If you want to protect democracy, help men" he pointed out the danger if "democratic" forces do not have some kind of positive vision of masculinity.

Opinions are divided on whether twenty-somethings will outgrow this ideological gender gap;

however, several people suspect that the bubble-forming effect of social media does not promote the ideological convergence of women and men of marriageable age.

Francesca Rivafinoli / Mandiner

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