Do voters hold women candidates to a different standard? Whether it’s a heckler telling Hillary Clinton to “iron my shirt” during the 2008 presidential campaign, or the fact that Congress remains just 18.5 percent female, it’s not hard to find signs of bias in American politics. But in her new […] Read more »
Public views working moms more favorably, study finds
For two and a half decades, from the 1970s to the mid-1990s, every year, a rapidly growing number of Americans began to think that women could bust out of their traditional homemaker roles, take on more public roles and work outside the home and their kids and family wouldn’t suffer […] Read more »
The Difference in the Senate Battleground: Economic Agenda for Working Women and Men
A new poll of the 12 states where control of the Senate is being contested, fielded by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner for Democracy Corps and Women’s Voice Women Vote Action Fund, shows that control of the Senate rests on a knife’s edge, but that Democrats’ have a powerful weapon in a […] Read more »
Americans Say Business Background Is Best for Governing
Four in five Americans (81%) say the U.S. would be better governed if more people with business and management experience were in political office. Meanwhile, 63% say the country would be better governed with more female political leaders — up slightly from 57% in 1995 and 2000. CONT. Justin McCarthy, […] Read more »
Why women are far more likely to vote than men
In their denouncements of the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby ruling, Hillary Clinton and other Democrats have been accused of pandering to single women — the so-called “Beyoncé voter” demographic, as one Fox News commentator sniggered. But you know what? If you were running for office, you’d be wooing us single […] Read more »
What’s the 2014 election really about? Religious vs. women’s rights
Religious rights versus women’s rights. That’s about as fundamental a clash as you can get in U.S. politics. It’s now at the core of the 2014 election campaign, with both parties girding for battle. What generated the showdown was last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Hobby Lobby case. […] Read more »