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.
A growing majority of young women worry about …