Elections 2012: BFP Watch Party

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Originally Posted by Greyson

Kay S. Hymowitz
The Misunderstood Gender Gap
Women’s voting habits have less to do with their sex than the media think.
16 November 2012


Romney lost the black, Hispanic, and Asian vote, while he won the college-educated vote (though not post-grads), the votes of those making over $50,000 a year, and the votes of older Generation X-ers, Baby Boomers, and voters over 65. In other words, married women voted less as part of a sisterhood than as part of a cohort of white people holding college diplomas, earning more than $50,000 a year, and wearing reading glasses.


http://www.city-journal.org/2012/eon1116kh.html

Thanks for posting this Greyson. It is important to break stuff down a little more than the media and politicans like to do.

Kay Hymowitz is a bit of a controversial figure in "analyzing" data that involves women. Sometimes, she comes across as a modern day Phyllis Schafly.

She has written a few controversial books that have both some merit and some wtf moments. Her book "Manning Up: How The Rise Of Women Have Turned Men Into Boys was interesting tho difficult to read. [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Manning-Up-Rise-Women-Turned/dp/0465028365"]Amazon.com description.[/ame]


And then there are her thoughts on why the gender wage gap will never go away i.e. Women prefer the Mommy track

Women of color might have a bit of a problem with [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Marriage-Caste-America-Separate-Post-Marital/dp/1566637538"]Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age [/ame]