Men Are More Politically Tolerant Than Women

New data suggests that men are more tolerant than women of political views that they disagree with. When researchers accounted for political party, both right and left-leaning people showed a low level of tolerance for people who were in the opposite party but men of all political affiliations scored higher in tolerating differences. The people who showed tolerance for both left and right thinkers were consistently either Libertarians or “something else” but even in those categories, men still ranked higher in the tolerance quotient. Now make your jokes about how women are intolerant and stubborn, go on. But this may point to something more serious than a battle-of-the-sexes punchline. Nearly every political argument that comes...

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