Tolerant men

This is a very interesting chart from FIRE.

They report:

While political affiliation makes people more biased towards speakers who share their views, it affects their overall willingness to let speakers speak, regardless of ideology, very little. But regardless of party or ideology, men are so much more tolerant than women that the gender tolerance gap dominates the ideology difference. In fact, men are over 3.5 times more likely than women to be “perfectly tolerant” of opposing views, meaning they would definitely allow any campus speaker.

Who would have thought it is men who are the tolerant gender!

They conclude:

Amazingly, it turns out men are often more tolerant of the opposite side than women are of their own side.

This is of course US data. Would be interesting to see if it replicates in NZ.