ABSTRACT
Women’s progress in the United States political arena has been slow but steady. Once women won the right to vote in 1920, they entered the electorate slowly and in smaller numbers than men (Ford, 2002). Eighty years later, women are now more likely than men to register to vote and to cast their ballots at the polls. In absolute numbers,morewomen thanmen have voted in every presidential election since 1964. Since 1980, the proportion of female voters has been greater than the proportion of male voters. And since 1984, more women than men have registered to vote (Ford, 2002).
