Here’s Rachel Ormston writing on the What Scotland Thinks blog: “The ‘gender gap’ in support for independence has become one of the best known features of Scotland’s political landscape in the run up to the referendum. Women have long been less likely than men to support independence. Even when the polls narrow – as in recent weeks they have – women remain less likely to say they will vote Yes. In the most recent YouGov poll that showed a substantial swing to Yes, only 42% of women said they would vote Yes (after leaving aside the undecideds who remain more numerous amongst women) compared with 52% of men, a gender gap of ten points. This is no isolated example, If we look at the most recent poll from each of the six companies that are polling regularly in the referendum, on average the gender gap still stands at nine points.”
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
