In November, there was a female presidential candidate running for the first time in American history, but 42 percent of women voted for Donald Trump and a majority of White women voted for Trump. This, despite the fact that the male candidate in the race also had multiple accounts of sexual assault alleged against him.
Dr. Suzanne Dovi from the University of Arizona explains that political scientists often describe Black Americans as tending to vote with a sense of shared fate in either one way or another. Women, though, tend to vote according to how they parse gender equality.
Why women don't have a similar sense of "shared fate," how much does entrenched sexism play a role, and do international examples have anything to teach Americans?