Word: gender
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...polls opened, the campaign's chief claim to a place in the history books had been the Democrats' nomination of Geraldine Ferraro for Vice President. But the presence of a woman on a major party's national ticket for the first time did not widen the gender gap. Polls of people leaving the voting booths indicated that some 54% of female voters pulled the lever for Reagan. That did not quite match the Republican's crushing 62% support among male voters. But it indicated that if the election had been conducted solely among women, Reagan would...
...gender gap? Women chose Reagan over Mondale by 55% to 45%, while men went for the President by 64% to 36%. From the beginning, Mondale's weakest support was among white males. "The problem was leadership," says Edward Reilly, a Boston-based pollster who did extensive surveys for Mondale. "Mondale became the candidate who kowtowed to special interests. Men thought he was saying to them, 'I'm going to take something away from you, white males, and give it to someone else...
Speaking to a predominately female audience, Klein defined the gender gap as the fact that women and men have different priorities and therefore cast different votes...
Klein traced the historical roots of the gender gap to the end of the sixties, when women began to take themselves seriously in the public sphere. "There has been a women's vote since 1972 when a majority of the women voter's voted for McGovern, "she said...
...gender gap is not about women candidates, it is about issues and talking about them from a women's perspective, making that perspective valid, "she said...