“The 2024 election felt like more than just a victory for President Trump. It felt like a victory for a traditional view of gender roles.

Mr. Trump certainly shares that view. During the campaign, he declared that women liked him because he was their “protector.” He called the satellite radio host Howard Stern a “BETA MALE” after Mr. Stern criticized him. In a 2021 interview, Mr. Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, disparaged women without children as “childless cat ladies.”

It appeared that what Mark Zuckerberg lauded as “masculine energy” was on the rise — fueled by a “manosphere” of podcasters and a subculture of women, the so-called tradwives, who have embraced homemaking and domesticity.

But in a way, all that was just anecdotes and impressions. Now we have the data to match. Surveys from 2024 show that support for traditional gender roles is increasing. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this is happening primarily among Republicans. Perhaps more surprisingly, it is happening among Republican women as well as among Republican men.”

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