One of the things that I have to impress upon my graduate students is there aren’t that many “laws” in social science. Unlike the physical sciences where the behavior of cells can be predicted with great precision, we really don’t have any findings that are always true in every circumstance.
However, there are some that come pretty close. One of those is the gender gap. It’s a well studied phenomenon in political science that concludes that women are more likely to identify and vote for Democrats than their male counterparts. …
But are there places where the gap narrows? For instance, the data clearly indicates that women are more likely to attend church than men and we know that, by and large, religiosity in America is becoming more and more linked to Republican politics. Can this nudge highly religious women closer to the Republican side of the partisan spectrum? Does religion narrow or eliminate the gender gap? CONT.
Ryan P. Burge (Eastern Illinois U.), Religion in Public