Voting the Gender Gap

Name: Voting the Gender Gap
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ISBN: 9780252075254

ISBN-10: 0252075250

ISBN-13: 9780252075254

Edition: 2007

Authors: Lois Duke Whitaker, Barbara Norrander, Kathleen A. Frankovic, Cal Clark, Janet M. Clark

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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 Gapanalyzes trends in voting while probing how women's political empowerment and gender affect American politics and the electoral process. …

Book details

List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 3/6/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction




The History of the Gender Gaps




Women and the Polls: Questions, Answers, Images




The Reemergence of the Gender Gap in 2004




Security Moms and Presidential Politics: Women Voters in the 2004 Election




Women Voters, Women Candidates: Is There a Gender Gap in Support for Women Candidates?




Using Exit Polls to Explore the Gender Gap in Campaigns for Senate and Governor




Parenthood and the Gender Gap




Sources of Political Unity and Disunity among Women: Placing the Gender Gap in Perspective




The Gender Gap: A Comparison across Racial and Ethnic Groups



Conclusion: When Women Vote, Are Women Empowered?



Bibliography


Contributors


Index