Entry:

Mansbridge, Jane J., "Myth and Reality: The ERA and the Gender Gap in the 1980 Election," Public Opinion Quarterly, 49 (Summer, 1985) 164-178.


Abstract:

Attitudes toward the Equal Rights Amendments were not a factor in the emergence of the gender gap in the 1980 Presidential election.

GSS Years:

1982

Other Data Sets:

CBS/NYT 1980; ANES 1976, 1978, 1980

GSS Codebook Variables referenced by document:

Variable Name

Variable Label

 
 
PRES80

"VOTE FOR CARTER

ERA

DOES R FAVOR OR OPPOSE ERA?

SEX

RESPONDENTS SEX

PRES76

VOTE FOR CARTER OR FORD

CIVIC

DOES R FOLLOW PUBLIC AFFAIRS?