Were American men somehow MORE feminist than American women in the 1970s?

[WalterWhite]

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/1975/04/10/archives/58-in-gall-up-poll-favor-equal-rights.html

I came across this strange poll conducted by Gallup in 1975 that asked men and women their thoughts on the Equal Rights Amendment. 58% of Americans supported the amendment, indicating strong support for the amendment intended to prohibit discrimination based on gendered lines.

However, the crosstabs of this polling made little sense. 63% of American men supported the Equal Rights Amendment, but only 54% of American women did. The article notes that "a similar difference had been observed in previous polls".

Were American women LESS supportive than American men of equal rights by gender in the 1970s? The Equal Rights Amendment was pushed hard by feminists, so were American women LESS feminist than American men in the 1970s? If so, what would explain this discrepancy?

[WalterWhite]

Could this have been some form of non-response bias, where women might have felt less comfortable openly supporting feminist causes than men?

[Maps are a good thing]

Don't underestimate the power of old WASP church ladies back then. They were a disproportionate share of the John Birchers as well.

[PSOL]

Men virtue signal more than women, and the situation of women’s ability to express themselves without social ostracism ensures that

Could this have been some form of non-response bias, where women might have felt less comfortable openly supporting feminist causes than men?

Was very much real for a lot of working class, rural, and same-gender isolated women.

[Stranger in a strange land]

Common arguments against the ERA were that if it were passed, women would be subject to the draft and that women's restrooms would be gotten rid of. It makes sense these would resonate more with women than with men.

[Georg Ebner]

Already by nature are men the progressive and woMen the conservative sex.
As a conSequence before our perverse era also intellectually and psephically - as everyone should be aware of on this forum.
Feminism is one of several products of the egalitaristic fanatism of decadent and self-hating&abdicating upperClass-men, in democratic Athens (cf. ARISTOPHANES) as well as in the XVIIIth's "Enlightenment" (and its present-day echos).

[ReaganLimbaugh]

Short answer, no