Despite the election of a record number of women to Congress in 2018 and the prominence of the #MeToo anti-harassment movement over the last year, only about a third of Americans say that women have made “major gains” toward achieving equal rights in the last year, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds. What’s more, Democratic women remain particularly pessimistic about the long-term fight for gender equality.
Just 36 percent of Americans said that women have achieved “major gains” in the last year, while nearly half — 49 percent — characterized any gains made toward women’s equality as “minor.” CONT.
Carrie Dann, NBC News