Tag: gender
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Even if Kamala Harris isn’t talking about gender, everyone else is
In just two weeks, Kamala Harris could make history as America’s first female president. You don’t hear her talk about it much. “The experience that I am having is one in which it is clear that regardless of someone’s gender, [voters] want to know that their president has a plan to lower costs, that their…
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Breaking down the the yawning gender gap dividing Gen Z: From the Politics Desk
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the campaign trail, the White House and Capitol Hill. In today’s edition, we break down our latest poll showing how Gen Z voters are viewing the presidential race in the…
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Japan makes tepid push on gender gap in politics as election nears
ODAWARA, Japan — Karen Makishima is the only female running for Japan’s governing party in her 20-seat prefecture for the Oct. 27 general election, reflecting the tough battle women face in breaking into the country’s male-dominated politics. Her Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has promised to narrow one of the widest gender gaps among lawmakers in…
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Black swing-state voters overwhelmingly back Harris — with key divides on age and gender, Howard poll shows
An overwhelming majority of Black likely voters in battleground states said they’ll vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in November — though she needs to close the deal with some skeptical undecideds to reach President Joe Biden’s 2020 margins among Black voters. The data, from a new Howard University Initiative on Public Opinion poll of 963 likely Black voters in…