Seminar series How and why do women and men vote differently? Education's role in voting differences Add to calendar 2024-03-12 16:00 2024-03-12 17:30 Europe/Rome How and why do women and men vote differently? Sala Triaria Villa Schifanoia YYYY-MM-DD Print Share: Share on Facebook Share on BlueSky Share on X Share on LinkedIn Send by email Scheduled dates Mar 12 2024 16:00 - 17:30 CET Sala Triaria, Villa Schifanoia Organised by Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies the Robert Schuman Centre Seminar Series Join Liesbet Hooghe, Jonne Kamphorst and Gary Marks as they unravel voting behaviours across genders. This seminar series focuses on the respective paper that describes how women and men vote differently in Western European and US elections and seeks to explain when and how this difference arises in a person’s life course. The premise is that the contemporary gender gap is directly linked to the transformation of party systems following the information revolution, and in particular, the rise of education in sorting voters on the transnational cleavage. The seminar will explore more on the paper, which concludes by using several sources of cross-sectional and panel data to test its claims. Specifically, it finds that the educational choices a person makes are highly gendered and are a key factor mediating the effect of gender on voting. However, education does not work in the expected way, for it is the field of a person’s education rather than the level of their education that is decisive.