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100			_aCascio, Elizabeth U. and Shenhav, Na'ama _923687
245			_aA century of the American women voter: Sex gaps in political participation, preferences, and partisanship since women's enfranchisement
260			_aThe Journal of Economic Perspectives
300			_a34(2), Spring, 2020: p.24-48
520			_aThis year marks the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, which provided American women a constitutional guarantee to the franchise. We assemble data from a variety of sources to document and explore trends in women's political participation, issue preferences, and partisanship since that time. We show that in the early years following enfranchisement, women voted at much lower rates than men and held distinct issue preferences, despite splitting their votes across parties similarly to men. But by the dawn of the twenty-first century, women not only voted more than men, but also voted differently, systematically favoring the Democratic party. We find that the rise in women's relative voter turnout largely reflects cross-cohort changes in voter participation and coincided with increasing rates of high school completion. By contrast, women's relative shift toward the Democratic party permeates all cohorts and appears to owe more to changes in how parties have defined themselves than to changes in issue preferences. The findings suggest that a confluence of factors have led to the unique place women currently occupy in the American electorate, one where they are arguably capable of exerting more political influence than ever before. – Reproduced
650			_aWomen voter, Women's participation _923688
773			_aThe Journal of Economic Perspectives
906			_aWOMEN - UNITED STATES
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