Rory Costolo

There does seem to be a pattern going on whereby

some young people are becoming more conservative and it does seem to be intersecting with gender.

For a long time, women have been a little bit more left-wing than men, but we're seeing a bigger gap now internationally between men and women in terms of their attitudes with women being more left-leaning and progressive and men being more conservative, particularly at the younger age cohorts.

We're seeing this in relation to gender roles.

So we're seeing a reversion to traditional gender roles, some young men favouring traditional gender roles.

And so you're seeing a big gap between young men and women on those issues.

But it's also more broad in terms of attitudes on issues like immigration or the environment, less so on the economy, but certainly on these more cultural questions.

We are seeing a growing gap between young men and women.

So that does seem to be an international pattern.

And we're seeing a little bit of that in Ireland too, although we don't have as much data on this as of yet.

One of the reasons that people are speculating, maybe driving this, is that young men and women are getting very different types of information online.

If you sign up to a social media platform and it recognizes you as a young man, you're going to be targeted with particular types of information, which

will tend to push you in a more conservative direction.

Whereas for young women, I mean, we've come through the Me Too era in recent years.

There is a lot more progressive content, I think, being directed at young women.

And so I think that may be driving a wedge between young men and women.