How the marriage gap is growing

Washington Post -  Last month, Pew Research Center compared data from 1993 and 2023, finding 12th-grade boys are more likely than 12th-grade girls to say they want to get married someday, a flip from three decades ago. Boys’ plans for marriage have barely budged since 1993, dropping to 74 percent from 76 percent. Girls, however, swung away from marriage by double digits. In the early 1990s, 83 percent of girls wanted to get married. In 2023, 61 percent said the same....

 Pew’s findings should be considered alongside an NBC News survey published in September that found lifestyle preferences falling along partisan lines. “Gen Z men who voted for Trump rate having children as the most important thing in their personal definition of success,” NBC News reported. “Gen Z women who voted for Harris ranked having children as the second-least important thing in their personal definition of success.”

Unsurprisingly, young women are also more likely to identify as liberal, and the margin is widening. As the New York Times reported, “Today, around 40 percent identify as liberal, compared with just 19 percent who say they’re conservative. The views of young men — who are more likely to be conservative than liberal — have changed little.”