Income inequality is a bigger concern in what may turn out to be a post-gender election.
With this year's Presidential election, gender politics has entered a new dimension.
With Dorothy Wickenden November 3, 2016 With this year's Presidential election, gender politics has entered a new dimension.
In Rolling Stone, Kate Spencer wrote "It's OK to Care About Gender in This Election".
We care about gender in this election, too - but not only when it comes to the candidates themselves.
"Tonight's victory reaffirms the significance of marital status, more than just gender, in determining election outcomes," said Page Gardner, president of the non-profit Women's Voices Women Vote Action Fund.
In the wake of the alarm and panic many felt immediately following the election, gender and sexual minorities have learned there are legitimate reasons to worry that he could roll back progress in ways a younger generation has never before seen.
I wonder: Would a woman columnist have gone "over the top" in assailing Hillary Rodham Clinton "in gender-heavy terms" this election season if gender parity existed on the opinion page?
If a good candidate for president emerges from either party in the next few elections, gender won't matter.
This helps explain why, among recent elections, the gender gap yawned widest in 1996 — not an election with many culture-war flash points, but a year when Bill Clinton relentlessly tied Bob Dole to the Congressional Republicans' attempted cuts to domestic spending and entitlements.
The gender gap in this election is expected to be historic, and the more Trump doubles down on his misogyny, the more female voters dislike him.
