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Gen Z, Gender, and COVID-19: New Research by GVPT Professor Stella Rouse Examines the Gender Gap in Attitudes About COVID-19 Among Generation Z

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The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to have a disproportionate and long-term effect on Generation Z, America's youngest generation. Yet, little research has examined the attitudes of Generation Z, particularly on the issue of COVID-19. In a new study forthcoming in Politics & Gender, GVPT Professor Stella Rouse (with Melissa Deckman, GVPT alum and CDCE researcher Jared McDonald, and Mileah Kromer) examined attitudes about COVID-19 among Generation Z, America's youngest generation. They found that there to be a gender gap in Gen Z attitudes about COVID-19, with women expressing greater health and economic concerns, more support for stay-at-home orders, and a greater likelihood that the government response to the pandemic will influence their vote choice, though these attitudes are mediated by partisanship. 

Read the full article: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/article/gen-z-gender-and-covid19/FC6764446E2525154D0DC22F41E58501.

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