Women Are Not a Voting Bloc

Why Democratic Appeals to White Republican Women Didn’t Widen the Gender Gap

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ID6353935
AuthorsCatherine N Wineinger (0000-0001-8280-7403, Western Washington University, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume21
Issue2
Pages369-375
Publication date2025-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitics & Gender (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1743-923X • E-ISSN: 1743-9248
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1743923x25100081
OpenAlexW4411222140
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited15

The 2024 presidential election was historic in many ways, but one trend did not buck the norm: the gender gap. Indeed, despite Kamala Harris becoming the first Black and South Asian woman to win a majority party’s nomination, the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade, and clear attempts by the Harris campaign to win over white Republican women voters, “gender differences in vote choice in the 2024 elections were remarkably similar to recent presidential elections” (CAWP 2024). This essay highlights the long-term ideological and demographic shifts among party constituencies that can help to explain why Republican women cast their vote for Donald Trump, even in a uniquely gendered political landscape

Democracy · Demographic economics · Economics · Gender gap · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Voting · White (mutation · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Chemistry · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law

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