Millennial Women Doubt They Can Make a Big Difference, Study Says

Title: “The 2016 Millennial Impact Report: Wave 2 Trends”

Organizations: Achieve and the Case Foundation

Summary: Millennial women are more skeptical than their male peers that they can make a big impact for the better on the country and are significantly less likely to volunteer or give money, according to a new study.

Millennial women are also far less prone than men to have a favorable opinion of the government’s ability to do what is right.

Achieve, which conducts research on millennials and their engagement with causes, polled 1,050 people between the ages of 18 and 36 in June, July, and August this year. The study followed up on a similar one released in June.

Among the findings from the new report:

• Twenty-five percent of female respondents said they could have a “big impact” on making the country better, versus 37 percent of men.
• Twenty-eight percent of women said they have at least “some” trust in government. Sixty-one percent of men said the same.
• Fifty-nine percent of men said they volunteered in the previous month, and 63 percent said they gave to a charity. By contrast, 29 percent of women said they volunteered and 33 percent reported donating.
• The three social issues about which millennials are most interested are education (cited by 30 percent of respondents), health care (26 percent), and employment and wages (25 percent).
• Roughly nine of 10 respondents of both genders said they used Facebook in the past month to post or engage on an issue they cared about. Males were much more likely than females to say they used Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube for the same purpose.
• Eighty-four percent of respondents said they were registered to vote. Three out of four respondents said they would vote in the presidential election.