Voting the gender gap / edited by Lois Duke Whitaker.

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 hi...

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Other Authors: Whitaker, Lois Duke
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Lois Duke Whitaker
  • The history of the gender gaps / Barbara Norrander
  • Women and the polls : questions, answers, images / Kathleen A. Frankovic
  • The reemergence of the gender gap in 2004 / Cal Clark and Janet M. Clark
  • Security moms and presidential politics : women voters in the 2004 election / Susan J. Carroll
  • Women voters, women candidates : is there a gender gap in support for women candidates? / Kathleen A. Dolan
  • Using exit polls to explore the gender gap in campaigns for senate and governor / Margie Omero
  • Parenthood and the gender gap / Laurel Elder and Steven Greene
  • Sources of political unity and disunity among women : placing the gender gap in perspective / Leonie Huddy, Erin Cassese, and Mary-Kate Lizotte
  • The gender gap : a comparison across racial and ethnic groups / M. Margaret Conway
  • Conclusion: When women vote, are women empowered? / Lois Duke Whitaker.