The conventional wisdom for decades has been that women were in fact more likely than men to support conservative parties after suffrage. @teele.bsky.social and Evelyne Brie have a paper challenging that conclusion: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The Myth of the Traditional Gender Gap? Evidence from a Crucial CaseIn rich democracies today, women are much less supportive of conservative parties than men. Yet for most of the twentieth century, politicians, pundits and schopapers.ssrn.comTom Theunsreminds me of the horrible fact that in several European countries women's suffrage was delayed by 'progressives' fearing women would vote as their priest instructs (i.e. conservative)