@mrundkvist
Well, the article talks mostly about the Swedish media landscape and uses the FT article about gender differences as a backdrop.
The gender differences that anchor the discussion seem to be of the questionable variety, probably explaining why the could be so dramatic:
> For these reasons, scholars approach the claims of a widening and increasingly significant youth gender gap with some skepticism. “It’s so new that I’m reluctant to say it’s definitely a thing,” Lawless explains.
> A close look at the data bears out her caution.
> In the Financial Times, Burn-Murdoch used data on ideological self-identification — primarily the Gallup Social Series, supplemented by the General Social Survey (GSS) — to show that young women were considerably more likely than young men to identify as liberal.
> The problem, though, is that the GSS data directly contradicts the Gallup data. An analysis by data scientist Allen Downey found that, after accounting for what looked like a statistical error in the 2022 GSS result, “there is no evidence that the ideology gap is growing.”
from https://www.vox.com/politics/2024/3/13/24098780/politics-gender-divide-generation-z-youth-men-women
h/t @kaiarzheimer