Why do women vote at higher rates than men? What would happen if turnout were equalized?

[The Mikado]

Worth pointing out there's a heavy education college/noncollege gap in voting (College graduates are about 32% of adults but about 41% of voting adults). We're about 30 years into persistently higher rates of women going to college than men, and it's true over and over to an almost hilarious extent. Pick a college and look up its gender breakdown and it's probably like 58-42 or 60-40 women over men. if higher education leads to higher voting rates and women are systematically higher educated than men for every cohort under about the age of 45-50 years old, that'll tell in the voting patterns.

[The Mikado]

*Actually very questionable, because to both parties' consternation turnout levels are not really correlated with election results in any consistent way.

Pew has some thoughts on this.