THEY’RE ALL BOY CRAZY!
Millennials’ baby bias
It’s a boy — or at least they hope!
Young Americans prefer sons far more than daughters, according to a new poll that shows even millennials are subconsciously sexist.
Asked what gender they would choose if they could have only one child, 36 percent of all survey respondents copped to wanting a boy while 28 percent said they would rather have a girl, the Gallup poll found.
The remaining 36 percent had no preference, according to the study — which noted that Americans have preferred sons since the survey began in 1941.
In an unexpected twist, the youngest, and most seemingly progressive, generation surveyed shunned females more than any other age group.
Of respondents ages 18 to 29, 48 percent said they would choose a son over a daughter — far more than participants in their 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s.
Meanwhile, only 31 percent of the millennials said they wanted a girl.
Fathers may be to blame for the gender favoritism.
“This ‘boy preference’ is largely because men would rather have boys,” the report says.
In total, 43 percent of men questioned in the survey said they preferred a boy, while 24 percent chose a girl. Women, by contrast, were split down the middle on gender preference.
Americans wanted boys the most in 1947 and 2000, when the gap between gender preferences was 15 percentage points. They wanted them the least in 1990, when the gap was 4 points.
This year’s 8-point gap clocked in below the average 11-point gap measured from the Gallup poll’s more-than-70 years of annual data.
Published Thursday, this year’s poll surveyed 1,520 adults by telephone from June 1 to June 13. The margin of error was 3 percentage points.