Gender, Age, Education, and Euroscepticism in a comparative perspective

Euroscepticism is a major current political issue, but how gender shapes attitudes to the EU is poorly understood. There has been no major study of Euroscepticism since Nelsen and Guth (2000) which considers how and why men's and women's attitudes towards the EU may differ. This paper addresses this major gap by considering how gender interacts with age to produce gender gaps in Eursocepticism. In particular, I argue that younger women should be particularly unlikely to be Eurosceptic given their high levels of formal education, and older women particularly likely to be Eurosceptic due to their lower levels of formal education. This paper compares how gender gaps in Euroscepticism compare to gender differences in University attendance by age across Europe with both aggregate and individual-level models.