More Young Women Than Ever Want to GTFO of the U.S.
Where are we going, friends? I’ll pack my bags.
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It’s no secret that Trump’s America is an anti-women hellscape that’s only become more hostile since the Supreme Court killed Roe three years ago. So it may be even less surprising that, according to a new 2025 poll by Gallup, a record number of young women want to leave the country. Where are we going, friends? I’ll pack my bags.
According to the poll, 40% of women between the ages of 15 to 44 said they would move abroad permanently if they had the chance, compared to 19% of men the same age. (I wonder why!) Per the outlet:
The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups.The sharp rise in younger women wanting to leave the U.S. has created a large gender gap between them and their male counterparts. Today’s 21-percentage-point gap between younger men (19%) and women (40%) wanting to leave the U.S. is the widest Gallup has recorded on this trend.
2025 marks the second year in a row that one in five Americans said they’d like to permanently leave the U.S. But, Gallup’s been polling this question since 2007, and says this is the first time the trend’s been led by women and teen girls. This year also marks the first time that any country saw a more-than-20% difference between genders. (While there are places where women are similarly discontented, such as 39% in Zambia and 41% in Malta, those numbers are similar for men, too.)
According to another poll by Gallup, which tracks government confidence, younger women have not only shown the biggest jump in wanting to leave the country, but also the sharpest drop of trust in institutions. According to that index, the number of women who trusted the judicial system dropped from 55% in 2015 to 32% in 2025. This is likely due to Roe being overturned.
Record share of women want to leave U.S. for good — more than double that of men
— #TuckFrump (@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social) November 13, 2025 at 7:37 AM
While the study does mention that its survey measures the desire to migrate rather than count how many people are actually moving, it reveals what we’re all thinking: it’s getting worse out here. We have an administration that’s never passed up an opportunity to make women’s lives worse; a Defense Secretary who’s actively pushing women out of the military; and a creep in office who literally bulldozed the part of the White House that focuses on women’s contributions. (Dare I add the boys proving us why the male loneliness epidemic is raging on?) Oh, also, Trump might fully be implicated in the Epstein Files, but stay tuned on that…
Young women want to leave america. This is truly the maga effect. A bunch of whiny, entitled white men raising their sons to be whiny, entitled incels. If you want to see the birth rate go up, then raise men instead of these brats. No one wants to fuck a misogynist that acts 13. https://t.co/B9Jx5uDljG
— Orangeworker (@JREEEEE9) November 13, 2025
There was a time when younger women were less likely than men to want to leave the U.S., or a time when we weren’t outperforming the OECD in terms of how many people want to escape the country. But that’s a time that apparently hasn’t existed for a decade now—or ten months, at that. So, again, I ask: where are we going?
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