America is the world’s dominant superpower, and white Christian males sit at the top of our nation’s food chain. That’s the right and proper hierarchy, and it’s under serious threat. When blue-collar whites heard that implied message from Donald Trump, many realized it aligned with their own beliefs. As a […] Read more »
Young People Set to Impact the Debate on Women’s Health Issues
… A majority (54%) of Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while about four in ten (43%) say it should be illegal in all or most cases. There has been little change in public views on abortion legality over the last decade. In 2008, 57% […] Read more »
What We Mean When We Talk About ‘Suburban Women Voters’
… For all the attention they get in politics, asking why suburban women voters matter has the ring of asking why water is wet; at this point, it’s just an accepted, definitional Thing that suburban women voters are highly coveted. But seriously: why do suburban voters — and suburban women […] Read more »
Sexual Harassment at Work in the Era of #MeToo
Recent allegations against prominent men in entertainment, politics, the media and other industries have sparked increased attention to the issue of sexual harassment and assault, in turn raising questions about the treatment of the accused and the accusers and what lies ahead for men and women in the workplace. A […] Read more »
Assessing Recent Partisanship Trends among Millennial Men and Women
Pew Research recently released 2017 data on partisanship among several demographic subgroups that it’s been tracking for decades. Trends in millennial party affiliation by gender–men and women born between 1981 and 1996–have especially gained attention. According to the Pew data, while partisanship among millennial men has been very stable in […] Read more »
Workplace equality stalls for women even as perceptions improve
In the last two decades, more women have taken on a role as their family’s primary breadwinner, and views of working mothers have become dramatically more positive. But when it comes to women’s actual experiences with inequality and harassment in the workplace, the more things change, the more things stay […] Read more »