How Does Gender Affect Party Affliction

In the United States gender influences a multitude of experiences, decisions, and affiliations. With that being said this question arises: does gender affect Party affiliation? This question can be answered in many different ways, but for this paper it will primarily focus on women and their party affliction. The reason being is that females are the minority and typically will vote for the Party that promises them the most benefits. Even though technically women are considered a minority in America, the comprise about 52% of the population. Additionally, in the ANES Codebook (2012) over 3000 women were respondents compared to the “2847” male respondents. This shows how females are an extremely influential part of the voting process and their opinion can either make or break a candidate. I previously stated that females will tend to vote for the Party that provides them the most benefits (as in gender equality in the work place, access to women health facilities, among other gender related issues). The independent variable for this theory is gender, and the dependent is party affliction. If women feel that a certain candidate will not provide them certain rights the percentage of women voting for that …show more content…
With these articles the two main points of influence for what party women are going to vote for were political involvement and stereotypes. For the most part most of the articles hinted that women tend to be more left leaning when it comes to their political stance; however, with a lot of these studies there were a lot of variables that were not counted for. An example of this is age, those who are older tend to vote more conservative then those who are younger. Also income comes into play too. The need for future research in this topic is great since that there are a multitude of reasons of why a woman might favor one party over