First, if you're going to read this do not take this as a value or other kind of judgement. Second, discussions like this are about aggregates that look to get trends from large groups of people. You as an individual will deviate from this. You might be tempted to say well that's not me! This is simply an academic discussion of gender in politics and with that said... Marshia Akbar has written a very good piece on the gender divide in Canadian politics. Her essay starts off with the polling data we have from Abacus, Angus Reid, and Ekos showing how in the last election cycle the Liberals attracted more women voters and Conservatives more men. Other pollsters like Leger, Mainstreet, and Nanos showed very similar results. This is not a new trend. Previous elections have shown men tending to vote Conservative in higher numbers, and women for the Liberals and NDP. Nor is this unique to Canada. In most American Presidential elections men tend to vote more in favor of Republicans an...
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