Article Young Conservative Men and Women Have Very Different Ideas of Success
Article Young Conservative Men and Women Have Very Different Ideas of Success
Sep 13 2025, 7:52 AM
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Quote:All of this makes the fact that more conservative men chose “having children” as personally definitional to success much more telling. For women regardless of politics, and for liberal men, it seems that children and marriage may be components of a good life, but they aren’t considered some sort of accomplishment. For conservative men, they are. Perhaps the big divide here isn’t about what one wants one’s family to look like, but in how one conceives of parenthood in the first place. For Trump-voting men, having kids may be a kind of flex, a status symbol, a feather in their cap—and, conveniently, something for which women actually take on the lion’s share of the labor.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/09/gen-z-poll-gender-divide-conservatives-liberals-marriage-family.html
https://archive.ph/PRp5f
Quote:All of this makes the fact that more conservative men chose “having children” as personally definitional to success much more telling. For women regardless of politics, and for liberal men, it seems that children and marriage may be components of a good life, but they aren’t considered some sort of accomplishment. For conservative men, they are. Perhaps the big divide here isn’t about what one wants one’s family to look like, but in how one conceives of parenthood in the first place. For Trump-voting men, having kids may be a kind of flex, a status symbol, a feather in their cap—and, conveniently, something for which women actually take on the lion’s share of the labor.
