… This female-male divergence of opinions is an enduring characteristic of polls on the use of military force and generally persists regardless of the weapons system employed, military mission undertaken, whether the intervening force is unilateral or multilateral, and the strategic objective proposed. The gap is also one that is sustained over time and is consistently found whenever or wherever comparable questions are posed regarding prospective military options.
Richard Eichenberg of Tufts University, who has written several essential works on gender differences in security attitudes, found: “There are many commonalities in the views of men and women, but the direction of gender differences is always and everywhere that women are less supportive of using military force than men.” [cont.]
Micah Zenko, Council on Foreign Relations