Why So Blue: Liberal Women Are Less Happy, More Lonely. But Why?
February 18, 2025
Young liberal women are especially prone nowadays to reporting poor mental health. This was the discovery that Zach Goldberg made almost five years ago pouring over Pew data in the spring of 2020. Further research in 2022 found that depression had surged among liberal high school girls in the last decade-and-a-half, and much more so for them than other high schoolers, especially conservatives.
Is this ideological gap in the mental health of liberal and conservative women still present?
