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Ingvild Zinober @ingvildzinober.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

As always, I have to thank the wifey for the spell checking <3 @ninniz.bsky.social

Ingvild Zinober @ingvildzinober.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The gap is largest among the most politically interested. When girls are politically engaged, they take up climate as their issue, while engaged boys focus elsewhere. The Greta Thunberg effect is invoked to explain why the cause attracts young girls. Is it also pushing young men away?

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Ingvild Zinober @ingvildzinober.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The pattern is also remarkably persistent. The gender gap in environmentalism among adolescents has been stable since the 1990s, when the data series starts. This mirrors my findings from the first paper. The Green Gender Gap is not a new phenomenon.

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Ingvild Zinober @ingvildzinober.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Existing work shows that political socialisation is gendered. As they grow up, girls increasingly see political leadership as incompatible with their own gender identity. I extend this logic to attitudes. Children filter political cues through gendered expectations about what suits women and men.

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Ingvild Zinober @ingvildzinober.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

But why does it matter? Because the Green Gender Gap appears before later-life structural sorting through education and occupation. Part of its source has to lie in how children and young adolescents are politically socialised, and in how that socialisation is gender specific.

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Ingvild Zinober @ingvildzinober.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Super excited to see the second article from my dissertation published in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social Drawing on unique Norwegian data, I find the green gender gap already exists in early adolescence. Boys are less climate-concerned, less supportive of green policies and less likely to vote green.

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The Green Gender Gap in Adolescence: A Case Study of Norway | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core

The Green Gender Gap in Adolescence: A Case Study of Norway

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Ingvild Zinober @ingvildzinober.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Why are women greener than men and why doesn't it always show at the ballot box? I enjoyed discussing this with the talented Beatriz Carvalho, who interviewed me about my PhD research. Curious to read more? See my article in Electoral Studies and my forthcoming article in Politics and Gender.

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Ingvild Zinober @ingvildzinober.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Paper submission for SISP 2026 is open! Anna Guildea and I are co-chairing the panel, 'Masculinity at the Ballet Box: Gender Identity, Electoral Behaviour, and the Politics of the Male Vote' Submit your abstract before May 29th. Come hang out with us in beautiful Trento this September!

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Call for papers 2026 congress – SISP

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Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

V-Dem v.16 is now released, w. updated scores for 2025. Most countries remain stable from 2024, but some clear improvements (on diff’t democracy indices), incl. S. Korea, Sri Lanka & Mauritius. Largest declines came, by far, in the US. This figure shows 10-yr changes on the Liberal Dem. index.

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Electoral Studies @electoralstudies.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

🚨 New study by @ingvildzinober.bsky.social on the “green gender gap” in Europe finds women are more supportive of green policies and parties than men. This gap persists even after controlling for education, occupation, and location – pointing to deeper gendered value differences.

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Ingvild Zinober @ingvildzinober.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Cool, cool, this I can investigate. For example, there are country differences in the average scores on the femininity and masculinity measures in ESS Round 11. That could potentially be used to infer how gender-traditional a country is.

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Ingvild Zinober @ingvildzinober.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

BTW! Gender Threat, what a very important inspiration for my dissertation 💞

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Ingvild Zinober @ingvildzinober.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Agree! I could go a little deeper into the ESS data round 11 to examine country-specific patterns before submitting Chapter 3 (Paper 3) of the dissertation for publication. Do you have any hypotheses about what I might find?

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Ingvild Zinober @ingvildzinober.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

To argue that environmentalism is implicitly associated with femininity, I draw on theoretical insights from disciplines outside political science. However, I also find some empirical support for my claim. Norwegian students consistently rank the Norwegian Green Party as the most feminine party.

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Ingvild Zinober @ingvildzinober.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

This is exactly what I find in my dissertation! Looking at data from Norway and ESS 11. I find that men who self-identify with a traditional gender role identity are less green compared to non-traditional men. I argue that this is because green politics issues are implicitly linked to femininity.

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(PDF) Understanding the Green Gender Gap: How Gender Role Identity Shapes Environmental Ideology and Political Behaviour

PDF | Compared to women, men are less concerned about the environment and climate change, engage less in eco-friendly behaviours, and are less likely to... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...

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Ingvild Zinober @ingvildzinober.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Exactly. Too often gender is treated as noise rather than something to explain. In my work, I argue that it is not something to control away but a political phenomenon that needs theorising. That said, when we include gender as a covariate in an OLS model, what would be correct terminology?

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Ingvild Zinober @ingvildzinober.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Exactly! And this is what I look at in my dissertation. I find that men who self-identify with a traditional gender role identity are less green compared to non-traditional men. I argue that this is because green politics issues are implicitly linked to femininity.

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(PDF) Understanding the Green Gender Gap: How Gender Role Identity Shapes Environmental Ideology and Political Behaviour

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Ingvild Zinober @ingvildzinober.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Finally, I am deeply grateful to everyone who contributed to this project! In particular, @simonhix.bsky.social, @peterla.bsky.social, @chknutsen.bsky.social and of course my super proofreader wife @ninniz.bsky.social.

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Ingvild Zinober @ingvildzinober.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

This suggests that the political outcomes of the Green Gender Gap are shaped by country-specific contexts, such as party-system characteristics, issue salience, and the availability of credible green political alternatives.

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Ingvild Zinober @ingvildzinober.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

But when looking at support for green parties, a clear regional divide emerges. In Northern and Western Europe, men are less likely to support green parties. In Southern and Central/Eastern Europe, there is no clear voting gap, despite women holding greener views than men.

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Ingvild Zinober @ingvildzinober.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Next, I find the Green Gender Gap is not a Western European phenomenon. Across Southern and Central/Eastern Europe, men consistently express less concern about climate and environmental issues than women.

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Ingvild Zinober @ingvildzinober.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Still controlling for gender without thinking about why? You can cite me💚👩‍🔬💚 I show that the gender gap in progressive climate and environmental views is a persistent empirical regularity that cannot be explained by differences in socioeconomic background, political ideology, or risk aversion.

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The Green Gender Gap: Environmental attitudes and pro-environmental vote choice across Europe

Does gender matter for how we engage with green political ideas? Using more than twenty years of data across 36 European countries, this paper identif…

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Ingvild Zinober @ingvildzinober.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I just started to watch mid speech, and the first thing I heard was "they call me daddy" 😐

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Ingvild Zinober @ingvildzinober.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Nice! Did you find any difference in the effect between women and men?

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Very happy to see this out in CPS! We study class identities and their social and political relevance over several decades in Britain, Denmark, Norway, and the US. A small thread: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/SIRW4...

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Elin Lerum Boasson @elinlb.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Interested in pursuing a career in climate governance, policy or politics research? Do you have a relevant PhD degree in political science, public administration or international relations? Then you should check out this opportunity! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (291366) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (291366), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, February 6, 2026

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Ingvild Zinober @ingvildzinober.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

And to my amazing supervisor @simonhix.bsky.social. Your enthusiasm and dedication kept my confidence high throughout all of this. Thank you for the feedback, the advice, and for teaching me how to do good research.

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Ingvild Zinober @ingvildzinober.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I am especially grateful for the wonderful jury; Amanda Clayton, @profrosiecamp.bsky.social and @filipkostelka.bsky.social. Thank you for engaging with the research, giving thorough feedback, and advising me on the next step.

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Ingvild Zinober @ingvildzinober.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

A week has passed since I successfully defended my dissertation at @eui-sps.bsky.social, and I still feel extremely proud of the skills I have learned and the research I have produced.

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Ingvild Zinober @ingvildzinober.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Tror du han tok med spaden hjemmefra?

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Ingvild Zinober @ingvildzinober.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

One of my greatest struggles is writing these self-promoting posts. They’re important for helping people find your work, but I never quite know what to say. So I’ll go with what feels most natural. I’m super, super proud of myself, and I think my work is pretty cool and innovative! Sooo check it out

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Understanding the Green Gender Gap

PhD thesis defence by Ingvild Zinober

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Ingvild Zinober @ingvildzinober.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

NYU Abu Dhabi is looking for a Post-Doctoral Associate. I’m happy to see that non-discrimination based on sexual orientation is mentioned in their Equal Employment Opportunity Statement. There’s only one problem…

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Ingvild Zinober @ingvildzinober.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I believe that the full explanation is not only that men experience more downward social mobility. Men's political response to lost social status is different from that of women.

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Ingvild Zinober @ingvildzinober.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Want to see something cool? We live in a gendered world where certain things and activities are seen as more feminine or masculine. But we don’t often consider that political parties can also be gender-coded. I asked ~1,300 students to rank the Norwegian parties from most masculine to most feminine.

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