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« on: January 18, 2012, 04:11:08 AM » |
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I don't think it is surprising. From the 1970s on, the feminist movement has worked to achieve its policy goals largely through the Democratic Party. The first media reported "gender gap" was in 1980. In Congress, Democratic women outnumber GOP women by a margin slightly greater than 2:1. The large majority of women's rights advocates are now found in the Democratic Party.
I suspect that if one looks at women's voting patterns in the 1960s and earlier, one would see more variety in how women vote. But I think the women's movement of the 70s was a big factor behind the gender gap which persists today.
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