Gender Rift on Climate Change Widens Among Young Americans
Gen Z women are more worried about global warming than their male peers.
The share of women between the ages of 18 and 29 who said the US was doing too little to protect the environment averaged 80% between 2017 and this year.
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For decades, young women in the US have identified as liberal at a higher rate than their male peers or older adults. But that gap has widened recently, especially on one issue: climate change.
The share of women between the ages of 18 and 29 who said the US was doing too little to protect the environment averaged 80% between 2017 and this year, according to a Gallup analysis of polling data from 2001 to 2024. That’s 18 percentage points more than the share of young men who said the same.