Women care about education more deeply than most men because they are responsible for educating their children and because more women are teachers than men. The teaching profession in this country is female dominant. So when candidates begin to talk about what they are going to do for spending on education and education reforms, these are major issues that women care very deeply about and tend to vote on. Finally on issues of violence and war and peace. Women prefer candidates that talk about avoiding war.
Women are more in favor of nonviolent solutions to international conflicts, greater gun control.
Guns could play out to be a very big issue in this election. Tell us what you see just happened with the two conventions in this month. I think the two conventions, were very important in helping begin to define where these candidates stand for women. The first thing to remember is that women take longer to make their minds up in elections. We tend to study the candidates more carefully, collect all the information, and wait to make a decision until we get a little more closer to Election Day.