United States: A Climate-Gender Wave Election? The Power of the 19th Amendment

Aug 25, 2019 | Joan Michelson, Forbes
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We commemorate the 99th year of women voting in the midst of an historic presidential election season – for the country, for women and for the planet – and the outcome sits in the hands of women voters.

Women are the largest single voting bloc and more reliable voters, and black women and unmarried women are particularly potent forces. As the Center for Women in Politics at Rutgers stated it, “In every presidential election since 1980, the proportion of eligible female adults who voted has exceeded the proportion of eligible male adults who voted,” as evidenced in the Bureau of Labor Statistics data that 63.3% of eligible women voters reported voting, vs.59.3 % of men.