{"id":94948,"date":"2021-06-07T06:49:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T11:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=94948"},"modified":"2021-06-11T09:13:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T14:13:29","slug":"women-outnumber-and-outvote-men-but-they-dont-vote-alike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2021\/06\/07\/women-outnumber-and-outvote-men-but-they-dont-vote-alike\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Outnumber and Outvote Men, But They Don\u2019t Vote Alike"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"VOA \u2014 Female voters are not a sure bet for Democrats, recent research on voting says.<\/p>\n

While Black, Latina\u00a0and Asian\u00a0American women voted<\/a> for\u00a0Democratic\u00a0President Joe\u00a0Biden by large margins, 55% of white women voted for\u00a0then-incumbent, Republican\u00a0Donald Trump,\u00a0and 44% chose Biden, who went on to win.<\/p>\n

The data challenge any notion that women are a monolithic voting bloc with a shared sense of identity.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere’s no singular sort of women’s vote in the American electorate,\u201d says Claire\u00a0Gothreau, a research associate\u00a0at\u00a0the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) at Rutgers.\u00a0\u201cYes, women are more likely to vote\u00a0Democratic than men. But once you look at gender data disaggregated by race, by age group, education, religiosity, there are these\u00a0really big\u00a0differences. For example, white women have pretty consistently voted Republican in presidential elections.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, across all age groups, women do tend to vote more\u00a0Democratic, with more white women voting for Democrats than white men. In addition, a CAWP analysis found that unmarried women tend to vote at a higher rate than unmarried men, but married couples tend to vote at similar rates as each other.<\/p>\n

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Voting in Miami, Florida, Nov. 3, 2020. A majority of white women have voted for the Republican candidate since 2000, and that was the case in 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There\u2019s also an education gap, according to the analysis. Educated voters across demographic groups tend to vote more\u00a0Democratic, but the gap isn\u2019t as large among voters of color. Sixty-four percent of white women with a college degree voted for Biden,\u00a0while 45% went for Trump.<\/p>\n

No matter how they vote, women play a huge role in U.S. elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey’ve registered and voted at higher rates than men in every presidential election since 1980,\u201d\u00a0Gothreau\u00a0says. \u201cThey outnumber men, at least in the past couple of elections, by about 10 million. So,\u00a0even though men outpaced women in terms of some other forms of political engagement like donating and running for office, the fact that women outvote men is meaningful.\u201d<\/p>\n

But that doesn\u2019t mean they all vote for\u00a0female\u00a0candidates. The numbers suggest that race is a stronger shared identity than gender,\u00a0Gothreau\u00a0says.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, women of color are wielding\u00a0increasing\u00a0power in the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0electorate,\u00a0Gothreau\u00a0says. Nonwhite people accounted for about one-third of the electorate<\/a> in 2020, which is the largest share ever.<\/p>\n

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Black women have one of the highest turnout rates among American voters and are increasingly more powerful at the ballot box. Picture taken Nov. 2, 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The voting power of Black women was evident in the most recent presidential election cycle.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlack women are a demographic group that tends to turn out in extremely high\u00a0numbers,\u00a0and I think that definitely played out in 2020,\u201d\u00a0Gothreau\u00a0says. \u201cIn key swing states\u00a0where Black women turned out,\u00a0in urban areas,\u00a0in places like Georgia, that was just critical to the Biden victory. And it is the case, particularly in recent elections, that Black women have one of the highest turnout rates.\u201d<\/p>\n

And she expects Black women and other women of color to become even more influential at the ballot box going forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore and more,\u00a0Gen\u00a0Zers\u00a0(young people up to age 24) are able to vote,\u00a0and they\u2019re a more diverse generation,\u201d\u00a0Gothreau\u00a0says. \u201cSo, I think in the future,\u00a0we’re going to see, in particular, younger\u00a0women of color holding a lot of sway in our elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VOA \u2014 Female voters are not a sure bet for Democrats, recent research on voting says. While Black, Latina\u00a0and Asian\u00a0American women voted for\u00a0Democratic\u00a0President Joe\u00a0Biden by large margins, 55% of white women voted for\u00a0then-incumbent, Republican\u00a0Donald Trump,\u00a0and 44% chose Biden, who went on to win. The data challenge any notion that women are a monolithic voting bloc […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94951,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94948\/revisions\/94951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}