Across the board—whether or not it was girls we interviewed for our qualitative deep dive or those that participated within the quantitative ballot (a few of their feedback are beneath)—girls spoke concerning the economic system in private phrases: what it value them, what they may or couldn’t afford. And it typically included points like paid go away and inexpensive childcare. Health care, too, was seen when it comes to prescription prices, although the Black maternal well being disaster was a significant difficulty.
“Women are nonetheless at a big drawback in skilled settings. In my subject it’s a lot simpler for a much less certified man to advance than for a extra certified lady. Further, each women and men want extra assist for households. There needs to be obligatory, government-subsidized go away and government-supported childcare.” —a Democrat from Illinois
“Childcare prices have to be capped as a result of the charges are exorbitant, which implies the mom both can’t work, or should work extra, through which case she’s unable to spend time with and nurture her baby.” —a Republican from Georgia
“Women needs to be making the identical wage as males doing the identical sort of labor.” —a Democrat from Illinois
“Give extra tax breaks to households, which might put more cash of their pocket so the mother wouldn’t should work full-time.” —a Republican from Tennessee
“We want inexpensive housing, inexpensive well being care, inexpensive childcare, entry to abortion, psychological well being care, equal pay, extra illustration in all establishments.” —a Democrat from Michigan
“Women, significantly Black and minority girls, stay undertreated and mistreated in well being care. They usually tend to die in childbirth. The wage hole continues to have an effect on girls.” —a Democrat from Ohio
While girls are largely united in naming the highest two points, once you break it down alongside social gathering strains in our ballot, different voting issues start to emerge. For Democratic girls, two additional key election points are gun coverage and abortion. For Republican girls, it’s legal justice and overseas coverage. Some independent-leaning girls moreover raised the transgender debate in sports activities.
“Removing our rights so far as abortion shouldn’t be acceptable. We have a proper to well being care. We have the precise to make the selection whether or not we need to carry a child or not.” —a Democrat from Wisconsin
“Not all girls need abortion to be freely accessible and authorized. Women need to have the ability to personal weapons in the event that they qualify however don’t need their abusers to have the ability to purchase them.” —a Republican from Michigan
“Health care must be accessible for everybody, weapons have to be managed, inflation must go down, the rich have to be taxed.” —an undecided from California
“I’m now 72 and don’t have any want of reproductive well being companies. However, I’ve two granddaughters who now have much less proper to bodily autonomy than I did, and that’s merely flawed! Stop hating LGBTQ+ individuals, immigrants, individuals of colour, and anybody who seems, loves, or thinks in a different way from you! Stop mass shootings by banning military-style weapons!! And for God’s sake—cease banning books.” —a Democrat from North Carolina
“Biological girls are completely different from organic males bodily however needs to be handled equally intellectually. Sports needs to be in a separate class as a result of males being stronger bodily than girls.” —an impartial from Hawaii
(Read extra about how the economic system and well being care affect girls’s votes within the story of “The Workers Behind the Workers.”)
WOMEN’S IDENTITIES
One of probably the most important facets we needed to discover within the Glamour-YouGov ballot was how girls determine themselves and the way that identification may affect their view of the present political local weather.
