A Look Back At 20 Years of Research on Gender and Voting in Politics & Gender

Cassese, Erin C.; Friesen, Amanda

A Look Back At 20 Years of Research on Gender and Voting in Politics & Gender

Date

2025-01-08

Authors

Cassese, Erin C.

Friesen, Amanda

Publisher

Politics & Gender

Abstract

This essay highlights the impact of Politics & Gender on the discipline’s understanding of how gender shapes the preferences, behavior, and motivations of voters. It provides descriptive information about the prevalence of research on gender and voting in the journal, along with the proportion of articles dedicated to women voters across different regions globally. The bulk of the essay focuses on the substance of this research — drawing out major themes and identifying significant contributions within each theme — and it concludes by offering a future research agenda on gender and voting.

Description

This article was originally published in Politics & Gender. The version of record is available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X24000461. © The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Women, Gender, and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.

Keywords

gender gap, women voters, political participation, public opinion, gender bias, information processing, intersectionality, descriptive representation

Citation

Cassese, E.C. and Friesen, A. (2025) ‘A Look Back At 20 Years of Research on Gender and Voting in Politics & Gender’, Politics & Gender, pp. 1–15. doi:10.1017/S1743923X24000461.