Women Voters Taking the Wheel?

TY - JOUR

T1 - Women Voters Taking the Wheel?

AU - Campbell, Rosie

AU - Shorrocks, Rosalind

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Political Quarterly Publishing Co (PQPC). Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PY - 2021/10/1

Y1 - 2021/10/1

N2 - Political parties increasingly segment the electorate to target subgroups of voters, giving more attention to some groups at the expense of others. In the UK, there has been sporadic and often marginal attention paid to women voters. However, the gender gap may now be too large to ignore in contemporary British politics. In this article, we question why more attention has not been paid to the preferences of women voters by political parties, and demonstrate the importance of considering gender as a crucial electoral divide in Britain.

AB - Political parties increasingly segment the electorate to target subgroups of voters, giving more attention to some groups at the expense of others. In the UK, there has been sporadic and often marginal attention paid to women voters. However, the gender gap may now be too large to ignore in contemporary British politics. In this article, we question why more attention has not been paid to the preferences of women voters by political parties, and demonstrate the importance of considering gender as a crucial electoral divide in Britain.

KW - electoral behaviour

KW - gender

KW - voting behaviour

KW - women voters

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85114633045&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1111/1467-923X.13053

DO - 10.1111/1467-923X.13053

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85114633045

SN - 0032-3179

VL - 92

SP - 652

EP - 661

JO - POLITICAL QUARTERLY

JF - POLITICAL QUARTERLY

IS - 4

ER -