‘How women are marginalised in American politics’

In America, the acclaimed bastion of democracy, women are still far from getting their dues in the political terrain. United States Bureau Chief OLUKOREDE YISHAU was at a Washington Foreign Press Center’s briefing on Women in Politics, where Doris Robinson, the Bela Kornitzer Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis, speaks on the causes and consequences of women’s political representation in the United States.

Okay, so then what do we expect for 2024? So not all states have yet closed their filing deadlines, so we still have time for candidates to file for office. And we’re not through primaries yet, so it’s a little early to talk about how many women will run. This is data we already know on Senate candidates for 2024 looking at is there a state where we definitely have a woman running. So that’s in purple.

So it is the case in the U.S. that men express more nascent political ambition than women. So men are more likely to say that they’ve thought about running for office even if they don’t consider themselves qualified to do so. Even very well-qualified women are less likely to say that they’ve thought about running for office. So we have an ambition gap.Even among ambitious women, it is the case that women in the U.S. have fewer resources necessary to run for office.

Okay. So I told you I’d talk about women and men as political elites. I also of course want to talk about women and men as voters. So a few things to know. So it has been the case for quite some time now that women in the U.S. vote at higher rates than men, right? And that’s actually – on the plot here you can see presidential elections from 1964 to 2020. On the vertical axis you can see the number of the eligible adult population who reported voting. My men are in gray, my women are in purple.

So what you can see is like a small gender gap here on the women – not small, I would say 5 percent, so that’s really meaningful, a five percentage point gap in women’s support for Democrats, so 52 percent of women voted for Democrats in the 2022 House elections compared to 47 percent for the Republican Party.

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