MOMocrats Get the (Skinny) Scoop on Women & Politics

Recently, the MOMocrats partnered with personal polling site The Skinny Scoop to develop an on-line poll to find out how politics and political discussions impact women's lives.  We posted a ten-question non-partisan "Quiz" to find out: (1) What issues are important in how we will be voiting in the 2010 midterm elections; (2) How involved women are in politics, from voting to following the news; (3) How politics affects their personal relationships with partners and friends; and (4) Whether gender plays a role in how we vote. 

 Not surprisingly, the economy tops the list of issues that women are most concerned about this election cycle. At least one of the commenters felt that only being able to choose one topic was difficult, since some of the topics are inter-related and important to everyone.

 Somewhat more surprising was the fact that 36% of women get their political news/info from social media sites, rather than traditional media outlets.  Candidates should probably be paying more attention to their Twitter and Facebook accounts than they probably are.  Of course, the best source for news online are the MOMocrats blog, Facebook, and Twitter, but I'm a little biased on that front.

Women who answered the quiz were an amazingly active group, with 65% stating that they had volunteered for a political candidate or party.  We hope that activism spills out into the upcoming mid-term elections.

On the gender factor in deciding who to vote for, 50% of those polled say that, all things being equal, a political candidate being a woman is a positive.  A little less than half thought it was a "neutral" factor, and none thought it was a negative factor.  On the topic of gender, 63% of women who answered think a woman will be President of the US by 2020.  I'm still waiting to see who that woman will be.  Currently, Australia, Argentina, Costa Rica, Croatia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, India, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Switzerland,  and Trinidad & Tobago all have women presidents or prime ministers.  Sixty-nine women world-wide have led their countries, whereas according to 50-50 by 2020, in the US, only  31 women have ever served as governor of 23 states.  If you ask me, we may have come a long way, baby, but we've got a long way to go to get to parity in government.

What do you think about these topics?  The Quiz is still open, so please go and register your opinions on these topics and more at Skinny Scoop.

~When not answering polls, MOMocrat Glennia can be found blogging at her family travel blog, The Silent I.

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This poll can basically get the views of women about politics and their ideas pertaining to it. Thanks a lot for giving women the right to be included. This is a good way to empower them. Keep it up.