{"id":6316,"date":"2017-07-06T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=6316"},"modified":"2017-07-03T13:41:10","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T18:41:10","slug":"why-single-women-are-more-likely-to-vote-for-liberal-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2017\/07\/06\/why-single-women-are-more-likely-to-vote-for-liberal-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Single Women are More Likely to Vote for Liberal Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 2018 mid-term elections are seeing more women than ever before expressing interest and taking steps to run for office. Some people suggest that this is the result of Hillary Clinton\u2019s loss to Donald Trump, as well as a response to the numerous ways that President Trump has been criticized for his sexist behavior. One might think that this means that women will vote for female candidates in droves, but sociologists <\/span>Leah Ruppanner<\/span><\/a> of University of Melbourne and <\/span>Kelsy Kretschmer<\/span><\/a> of Oregon Sate University, along with political scientist <\/span>Christopher Stout<\/span><\/a> of Oregon State University, caution against such sweeping predictions in a recent article for\u00a0<\/span>RawStory<\/span><\/a><\/em>.<\/em> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Using data from the American Election study to describe relationships between marriage and behavior at the polls, the researchers find that white and Latina women who are married are less likely to see their own fates as tied to that of other women. By contrast, single white and Latina women, and black women in general, are more likely to see themselves and other women as interconnected.\u00a0<\/span>As a result, women who are married and feel less connected to other women are more likely to vote for conservatives, while single women and those who feel more connected to other women are more likely to vote for liberals. The researchers explain,<\/span><\/p>\n

“Some married women\u00a0perceive advances<\/a>\u00a0for women, such as lawsuits to mitigate pay discrimination, as coming\u00a0at the expense<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0their male partners<\/a>. In part, this captures the shift in married women\u2019s alliances from the individual to the marital union. Women who depend on their own income are\u00a0more supportive of feminist issues<\/a>\u00a0such as abortion, sexual behavior, gender roles and family responsibilities, which widens the political gap between single and married women.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They discuss how marriage has been shown to alter people\u2019s behaviors and beliefs, and they suggest that married women can think less about women\u2019s issues such as abortion and gender norms than single women do. However, an important caveat to their findings is that they did not observe significant differences between married and single <\/span>black<\/span><\/i> women. The researchers warn,<\/span><\/p>\n

“Don\u2019t assume that married women will connect to other women based on a notion of shared womanhood. Rather, feminist messages of discrimination and sexism may be more compelling to women who shoulder disproportionate levels of\u00a0inequality, poverty and job insecurity<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 single, divorced and black women.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 2018 mid-term elections are seeing more women than ever before expressing interest and taking steps to run for office. Some people suggest that this is the result of Hillary Clinton\u2019s loss to Donald Trump, as well as a response to the numerous ways that President Trump has been criticized for his sexist behavior. One […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,85,14],"tags":[39114,39110,96180,96181,39115,39111,96182,109],"class_list":["post-6316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender","category-inequality","category-politics","category-race","tag-gender","tag-inequality","tag-marital-status","tag-married-women","tag-politics","tag-race","tag-single-women","tag-voting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6316"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6322,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6316\/revisions\/6322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}