I don’t have enough subscribers for this first post to be embarrassing, so let’s do this! This is my inaugural post, briefly explaining what I plan to start doing here, on substack, this summer.
My newsletter is called GENDER GAP. What are gender gaps? Gender gaps are disparities between men and women, and they exist everywhere. Pay gender gaps, partisan gender gaps, mental health gender gaps, gender gaps in film screen time, and more. Layer in race, and you’ve got a whole ‘nother story (especially when looking at gender gaps in vote choice).
I’m writing about gender gaps because I think they are key to understanding social change, and our current political landscape in the US. There has been an enormous upheaval of longstanding gender norms in the past decade or so, and plenty of people are looking at certain gender gaps (like education, where women now outrun men) and panicking in ways that risks slowing the progress women have made. They’re taking the wrong lessons from these gender gaps.
This newsletter is my attempt to bring insights, reflection, and nuance to this conversation, so we don’t lose the forest for the trees.
Thanks for being here!