Gen Z’s Political Gender Divide Is Now Showing up in Schools
May 19, 2026
On Nov. 5, 2024, men and women around the U.S. headed to the polls to decide a race hyped as a battle of the sexes.
By evening’s end, Kamala Harris’ quest to punch through the “highest, hardest glass ceiling” and become America’s first female president lay in shambles. Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s undisputed alpha malesince 2015, would return to the White House. And voters, especially the youngest ones, were themselves divided starkly on lines of gender.
