As more than a million people marched in U.S. cities for the second straight year in protests centered on the rights of women, The Washington Post and our partners at ABC News released a new poll. In it, we found a wide gap between men and women on several central […] Read more »
What Women Thought Of Trump Through Year One
The 2016 election was marked by a clear gender divide. In fact, men and women differed in their voting choice that year more than they had in any other modern presidential election. A year on from President Trump’s inauguration — and the Women’s March protest that filled the National Mall […] Read more »
Women think U.S. would be better off with more women in office
Most women say it’s very important for more women to be elected to political office, and a majority think the country would be better off if that happened. Still, partisanship drives views on this. Fifty-four percent of women say it’s very important to them personally that more women are elected […] Read more »
Will Women Lead the Democrats to Victory?
Many think the issue of sexual harassment — embodied in the #MeToo movement — will work to the advantage of Democrats in upcoming elections. A mid-December NBC News/Wall Street Journal Survey gave the party a three to one advantage over Republicans on the matter. But it is hardly guaranteed to […] Read more »
How Sex Trumped Race
… Relative to where American politics stood before his rise, Trump’s campaign polarized America more by class and gender than it did by race. And then, by jettisoning much of the populist economic agenda he campaigned on, Trump’s actual presidency has made class less important and gender more essential to […] Read more »
Hillary Clinton Ignited a Feminist Movement. By Losing.
Hillary Clinton, the first woman who had a real shot at the presidency, has finally set off a national awakening among women. The only catch? She did it by losing. In the year since a stoic Mrs. Clinton watched as Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 45th president, […] Read more »