Voting the gender gap /edited by Lois Duke Whitaker. 

 - Urbana :  University of Illinois Press,  (c)2008. 
 - 1 online resource 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction /  The history of the gender gaps /  Women and the polls : questions, answers, images /  The reemergence of the gender gap in 2004 /  Security moms and presidential politics : women voters in the 2004 election /  Women voters, women candidates : is there a gender gap in support for women candidates? /  Using exit polls to explore the gender gap in campaigns for senate and governor /  Parenthood and the gender gap /  Sources of political unity and disunity among women : placing the gender gap in perspective /  The gender gap : a comparison across racial and ethnic groups /  Conclusion: When women vote, are women empowered? /  Lois Duke Whitaker --  Barbara Norrander --  Kathleen A. Frankovic --  Cal Clark and Janet M. Clark --  Susan J. Carroll --  Kathleen A. Dolan --  Margie Omero --  Laurel Elder and Steven Greene --  Leonie Huddy, Erin Cassese, and Mary-Kate Lizotte --  M. Margaret Conway --  Lois Duke Whitaker. 
<br/><br/> 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._x000B_ 
<br/><br/>
<br/><br/><br/>Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. <br/>http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780252092855 9781283583237 9786613895684 6613895687 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2019718664 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA824892  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>014536719  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women--Political activity--History--United States--21st century.<br/>Voting--History--United States--21st century.<br/>Political participation--History--United States--21st century.<br/>Women political candidates--United States.<br/>Sex role--Political aspects--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ1236  / .V685 2008