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Point/Counterpoint: women are proving to be powerful political, societal forces

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June 28, 2023

Point/Counterpoint: women are proving to be powerful political, societal forces

Source: Duluth News Tribune

So many political issues, from debates over abortion and school curriculum materials to budget cuts, are framed as attacks on “women” as a group, and polls and statistics showing that women’s votes lean left are usually cited as evidence for the idea that the Republican Party is anti-woman. But these gender gap statistics are misleading, an attempt to pit the sexes against each other in a contest of identity politics that doesn’t reflect the interdependent reality of millions of women (and men).

Click here to read the full article published by Duluth News Tribune on 25 June 2023.

Author
Inez Stepman
Publisher
Duluth News Tribune
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So many political issues, from debates over abortion and school curriculum materials to budget cuts, are framed as attacks on “women” as a group, and polls and statistics showing that women’s votes lean left are usually cited as evidence for the idea that the Republican Party is anti-woman. But these gender gap statistics are misleading, an attempt to pit the sexes against each other in a contest of identity politics that doesn’t reflect the interdependent reality of millions of women (and men).

Click here to read the full article published by Duluth News Tribune on 25 June 2023.

Author
Inez Stepman
Publisher
Duluth News Tribune
Focus areas

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