Women in general have a strong preference for security over risk. Hence the gender gap and its 1964 flip-flop. Prior to that date, security could be found in traditional conservative verities, in home and church and community. LBJ's campaign to portray Barry Goldwater as a reckless militarist broke the spell, and the Great Society did the rest. There is a sense, in fact, in which women were just waiting for the welfare state.
Women are natural socialists.
Anyone who has lived in a communist country has noticed that women are much keener supporters of the system than men. In a play called The Assemblywomen , written about 400 B.C., Aristophanes has the women of Athens, disguised as men, taking over the assembly and voting themselves into power. No more risk, please. No more talk about rolling back the State or downsizing those departments of state that keep us safe and warm. No more of those nasty handguns.