Women's Vote Watch is a project of the Center for American Women and Politics and the Communications Consortium Media Center. It was created to monitor and analyses trends relating to women and voting in the 2008 American presidential elections. The website provides free access to press releases, opinion poll data and full text briefing and research papers. Topics covered by these include: th...
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Intute on 7th Oct 2008 (via intute.ac.uk)
According to a poll carried out last month by MORI, the majority of people believe that men are paid more than women for doing equal work. The poll found that 52% of people disagree with the statement that men and women receive the same pay for doing jobs of equal value. Overall 40% think that men and
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 1st Dec 2009 (via libdemvoice.org)
The Americans seem to be getting the hang of this daft opinion poll business, as the results (registration required) for the most and least desirable celebrity neighbours are in . And Sarah Palin is the winner both overall and with men. Women would rather live next door to Oprah Winfrey, as would women 18-34. Men 18-34 prefer Michael Phelps, whoever that is. Getting on to the infinitely more amuis...
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TheCroydonian on 31st Dec 2008 (via croydonian.blogspot.com)
Barack Obama had better get Hillary Clinton fired up. Reuters is reporting today that John McCain has gained huge support among white women since naming Sarah Palin as his running mate and now leads Democrat Barack Obama among those voters, according to a survey published on Tuesday. It reports on a Washington Post/ABC News poll found
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HarrysPlace on 9th Sep 2008 (via hurryupharry.org)
For all the talk about Barack Obama losing the white women vote to McCain, because of Sarah Palin, a new NY Times poll debunks this idea: But the Times/CBS News poll suggested that Ms. Palin’s selection has, to date, helped Mr. McCain only among Republican base voters; there was no evidence of significantly increased support for
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PickledPolitics on 18th Sep 2008 (via pickledpolitics.com)
Why didn't Hillary Clinton win the Democratic nomination? This is from a recent poll of US women voters: Despite all the talk about sexism in the presidential campaign, the majority of women voters laid the blame for Hillary's loss squarely...
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NormanGeras on 11th Aug 2008 (via normblog.typepad.com)
This is a Poll on attitudes to violence against women . I have not had time to work out what I think but it is well worth reading and quite shocking .
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NewmaniaInLewes on 10th Mar 2009 (via iznewmania.blogspot.com)
Rwanda will be the first country where women will outnumber men in parliament, initial poll results show.
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ElectionGuide on 22nd Sep 2008 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
Today we have published Women and Recession, a report considering the impacts that this downturn will have for women in formal employment. While we are not arguing that women will be affected more than men we highlight that women will be hit more by this downturn than previous recessions, and that...
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Tigmoo on 21st Jan 2009 (via touchstoneblog.org.uk)
More women would rather have breakfast with Boris Johnson than either Gordon Brown or Lewis Hamilton, according to a poll published today. The survey carried out for the HGCA (formerly the Home Grown Cereals Authority) to launch Farmhouse Breakfast Week saw Johnson ranked in fifth place by women behind Ant and Dec, Take That, Jamie Oliver and James Bond actor Daniel Craig. But he was ahead of Cher...
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Guardian on 26th Jan 2009 (via guardian.co.uk)