Men consistently know more about a wide range of issues than women. This is the case for domestic policy questions and questions about people in the news, but the gender gap is even wider for international news. Only on the subject of entertainment is there no information gap between men and women. Regarding news about women and women's issues, there are virtually no sex differences in knowledge among men and women under age 30. However, women over 30 are slightly less informed about women newsmakers and stories about women than are their male counterparts.
Education does little to mitigate the differences in levels of knowledge between women and men.
College-educated men are significantly more knowledgeable than any other group. College-educated women are only slightly more informed than men without college degrees. Life situation factors have some influence on levels of knowledge for both women and men. Women who are employed full time are no more knowledgeable than women who are employed part time or not at all. However, educated women who work full time are more knowledgeable than educated women who do not work full time.