Why have women become left-wing? The political gender gap and the decline in marriage
Why have women become left-wing? The political gender gap and the decline in marriage
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DOI：
10.1162/003355302760193922
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发表时间：
2002-08-01
影响因子：
13.7
通讯作者：
Pande, R
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作者：
Edlund, L;Pande, R
在过去的30年里，美国政治上的性别差距越来越大，支持民主党的女性多于男性。我们把这种发展归因于结婚率的下降，我们认为这使得男人更富有，女人更贫穷。美国的数据支持这一观点。首先，各州的离婚率与政治性别差距之间存在很强的正相关关系——更高的离婚率会降低男性对民主党的支持，但女性不会。其次，纵向数据显示，结婚（离婚）后，女性支持民主党的可能性更小（更大）。
The last three decades have witnessed the rise of a political gender gap in the United States wherein more women than men favor the Democratic party. We trace this development to the decline in marriage, which we posit has made men richer and women poorer. Data for the United States support this argument. First, there is a strong positive correlation between state divorce prevalence and the political gender gap-higher divorce prevalence reduces support for the Democrats among men but not women. Second, longitudinal data show that following marriage (divorce), women are less (more) likely to support the Democratic party.