In the first generation that can take gender equality for granted, young women and young men are growing apart – or at least voting very differently. And there are a million explanations...
Another potential hypothesis - as anti-politics supplants and precludes actual politics, political affiliation is based on manners, what language one should use, and what cultural signifiers one should make public. Manners and social relationships have historically been the domain of women, so this is just the modern expression of these traditional gender roles
Another potential explanation, perhaps the least interesting, would be Simpson's paradox, where what looks like a single line with slope x turns out to actually be 2 lines with slope -x. Basically this would just be a more nuanced version of the "men are angry at being in the service sector" point. At any rate we need not take women (or men) in a specific age range as a meaningful category.
Another potential hypothesis - as anti-politics supplants and precludes actual politics, political affiliation is based on manners, what language one should use, and what cultural signifiers one should make public. Manners and social relationships have historically been the domain of women, so this is just the modern expression of these traditional gender roles
Yeah I think that's right, and builds on my point about political polarisation today being on affective rather than programmatic lines.
Another potential explanation, perhaps the least interesting, would be Simpson's paradox, where what looks like a single line with slope x turns out to actually be 2 lines with slope -x. Basically this would just be a more nuanced version of the "men are angry at being in the service sector" point. At any rate we need not take women (or men) in a specific age range as a meaningful category.