>> The data for the US shows young men in the US staying relatively around the center after a brief left shift in '08, but young women have skewed far to the le

>> The data for the US shows young men in the US staying relatively around the center after a brief left shift in '08, but young women have skewed far to the left. So the gap shouldn't have much to do with the material conditions of men, in the US at least. > Or, that same data could be use to show that women have stayed relatively around the center and men of skewed far to the right. After all, "the center" is not an absolute objectively defined concept. I would assume any study of that data worth being called as such would have put all its measurements on some standard scale to determine who actually moved. "The center" may not be an "objectively" defined concept, but "men stayed the same" and "women moved" can be quantified objectively.