Reinterpreting the gender gap

In: Public opinion quarterly: journal of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Band 50, Heft Fall 86

Abstract

Analyses the recent political differences between men and women that contradicts the conventional description of the 'gender gap' in American politics. Argues that the gender gap has been the result of unequal rates of defection by men and women away from liberal values and the Democratic Party. Greater movement by men toward conservative positions and the Republican Party produced the gender gap. (AM)