The term “gender gap” has a clinical sound to it, like it’s an intrinsic condition of our politics. But it did not always exist, and with each recent election cycle, it has become more extreme. If we look more closely at it, the gender gap probably deserves another name: It’s […] Read more »
Gender in the 2020 election: Have we gotten the story backwards?
… It has become conventional wisdom in 2020 that a Biden victory would be powered by women’s massive disaffection from Donald Trump. But the Pew findings show that something else is happening that calls this assumption into question, something that may shed light on the larger problem of sexism in […] Read more »
Equality Is on the Ballot: The Gender Gap Becomes a Chasm
In the past four years, Americans have experienced an endless series of large-scale events and shocks to our political system. … These cataclysmic events have shaped voter attitudes and preferences. In each of these cases, women appear to have reacted more quickly and more negatively to Trump than men have. […] Read more »
Voters’ Attitudes About Race and Gender Are Even More Divided Than in 2016
During the 2016 presidential campaign, supporters of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton disagreed over nearly everything, including the extent to which Black adults in this country are disadvantaged because of their race and women because of their gender. Today, these differences are even wider among voters who support Trump and […] Read more »
Gender Gap: Women for Biden, men split nationally with edge to Trump in battlegrounds
Biden is currently ahead of Trump among women nationwide and in nine battleground states where CBS News has conducted polling. Men split nationally, while Trump has the edge with men in key battlegrounds. CONT. Jennifer De Pinto, CBS News The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a concise daily rundown of significant new poll […] Read more »
Americans Regard Gender Equality as Unfinished Business
A century after women in the U.S. gained the right to vote with the adoption of the 19th Amendment in August 1920, most Americans think additional work remains before women achieve equality with men. Nearly seven in 10 U.S. adults (69%) say women have not yet achieved equality in the […] Read more »