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Voting the Gender Gap
About this book
This book concentrates on the gender gap in voting--the difference in the proportion of women and men voting for the same candidate. Evident in every presidential election since 1980, this polling phenomenon reached a high of 11 percentage points in the 1996 election. The contributors discuss the history, complexity, and ways of analyzing the gender gap; the gender gap in relation to partisanship; motherhood, ethnicity, and the impact of parental status on the gender gap; and the gender gap in races involving female candidates. Voting the Gender Gap analyzes trends in voting while probing how women's political empowerment and gender affect American politics and the electoral process.
Contributors are Susan J. Carroll, Erin Cassese, Cal Clark, Janet M. Clark, M. Margaret Conway, Kathleen A. Dolan, Laurel Elder, Kathleen A. Frankovic, Steven Greene, Leonie Huddy, Mary-Kate Lizotte, Barbara Norrander, Margie Omero, and Lois Duke Whitaker.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The History of the Gender Gaps
- 2. Women and the Polls: Questions, Answers, Images
- 3. The Reemergence of the Gender Gap in 2004
- 4. Security Moms and Presidential Politics: Women Voters in the 2004 Election
- 5. Women Voters, Women Candidates: Is There a Gender Gap in Support for Women Candidates?
- 6. Using Exit Polls to Explore the Gender Gap in Campaigns for Senate and Governor
- 7. Parenthood and the Gender Gap
- 8. Sources of Political Unity and Disunity among Women: Placing the Gender Gap in Perspective
- 9. The Gender Gap: A Comparison across Racial and Ethnic Groups
- Conclusion: When Women Vote, Are Women Empowered?
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index