Quite interested at how the gender gap manifests itself in different political cultures. I know in the UK women tended to be more conservative than men in the 50's but shifted left over time so now are more likely to vote LAbour. How is this different in other countries? (especially developing ones)
Some data I once saw showed a big gender gap in the 1959 general election; women voted Tory by something like 55-42 while men voted Labour by about 51-47. Here is the MORI data since October 1974: https://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/101/How-Britain-Voted-Since-October-1974.aspx?view=wide
The reversed gender voting patterns also apply to the U.S. for the Presidential elections of 1952, 1956, and 1960, where Eisenhower swept the female vote and carried men by a smaller margin, while in 1960 women narrowly went for Nixon and men narrowly for Kennedy.
Just throwing that out there.
