In rural parts of America, it wasn’t just white men who flocked to the polls on Election Day to vote for Donald Trump. Rural white women were right there in the voting lines with them. The NBC News national exit poll documented how Trump and his populist message disproportionately appealed […] Read more »
Why Does This Election Have Us So Down? Social Science May Have An Answer
U.S. politics have long been marked by disagreement and even rancor. But 2016 feels worse than usual. NPR’s Hidden Brain podcast offers one explanation why, from deep in our psychological frameworks. NPR Read more »
NPR Poll: Are Parents Overrating The Quality Of Child Care?
Parents’ views of child care are a little like life in Lake Wobegon — the vast majority say it’s way above average. That’s just one of the findings in a poll looking at child care and health from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School […] Read more »
Poll Finds Most Voters Embrace Milestone for Women, if Not Hillary Clinton
On Nov. 8, American voters for the first time in history will see a woman’s name on the ballot as a major party’s nominee for president. A broad majority of voters — men and women — say they are happy this milestone has been reached, but fully half of them […] Read more »
Women weigh in on the presidency and on their own lives
Women feel good about their opportunities to succeed compared to their mothers’ experience. More than 3 in 4 women (77 percent) say their opportunities to succeed in life are better than their mothers’, including majorities of women of all ages, although older women are more likely to feel that way. […] Read more »
Why school? Work? Citizenship? Academics?
In a year marked by so many divisions, the newest PDK poll on education shows that Americans don’t agree on the most basic question about the very purpose of a public school education. Is it to prepare students for work? To prepare them for citizenship? Or to prepare them academically? […] Read more »