Voting the gender gap / / edited by Lois Duke Whitaker

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819335403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2008
• ISBN: 1-283-58323-2; 9786613895684; 0-252-09285-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (234 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): WhitakerLois Duke
• Disciplina: 324.9730082
• Soggetti: Women - Political activity - United States - History - 21st century; Voting - United States - History - 21st century; Political participation - United States - History - 21st century; Women political candidates - United States; Sex role - Political aspects - United States; United States Politics and government 21st century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-206) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / Lois Duke Whitaker -- The history of the gender gaps / Barbara Norrander -- Women and the polls : questions, answers, images / Kathleen A. Frankovic -- The reemergence of the gender gap in 2004 / Cal Clark and Janet M. Clark -- Security moms and presidential politics : women voters in the 2004 election / Susan J. Carroll -- Women voters, women candidates : is there a gender gap in support for women candidates? / Kathleen A. Dolan -- Using exit polls to explore the gender gap in campaigns for senate and governor / Margie Omero -- Parenthood and the gender gap / Laurel Elder and Steven Greene -- Sources of political unity and disunity among women : placing the gender gap in perspective / Leonie Huddy, Erin Cassese, and Mary-Kate Lizotte -- The gender gap : a comparison across racial and ethnic groups / M. Margaret Conway -- Conclusion: When women vote, are women empowered? / Lois Duke Whitaker.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book concentrates on the gender gap in voting--the difference in the proportion of women and men voting for the same candidate. ; Evident in every presidential election since 1980, this polling phenomenon reached a high of 11 percentage points in the 1996 election. The contributors discuss the history, complexity, and ways of analyzing the gender gap; the gender gap in relation to partisanship; motherhood, ethnicity, and the impact of parental status on the gender gap; and the gender gap in races involving female candidates. Voting the Gender Gap analyzes trends in voting while probing how women's political empowerment and gender affect American politics and the electoral process._x000B__x000B_Contributors are Susan J. Carroll, Erin Cassese, Cal Clark, Janet M. Clark, M. Margaret Conway, Kathleen A. Dolan, Laurel Elder, Kathleen A. Frankovic, Steven Greene, Leonie Huddy, Mary-Kate Lizotte, Barbara Norrander, Margie Omero, and Lois Duke Whitaker.