{"id":1508,"date":"2014-09-03T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2023-08-29T22:10:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T12:10:39","slug":"more-on-the-scottish-referendum-vote-gender-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1508","title":{"rendered":"More on the Scottish Referendum Vote Gender Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s Rachel Ormston writing on the What Scotland Thinks blog: &#8220;The \u2018gender gap\u2019 in support for independence has become one of the best known features of Scotland\u2019s 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 \u2013 as in recent weeks they have \u2013 women remain less likely to say they will vote Yes.&nbsp;In the most recent YouGov poll&nbsp;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.whatscotlandthinks.org\/2014\/09\/will-the-gender-gap-narrow-findings-from-2011-and-quebec\/\">More info &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s Rachel Ormston writing on the What Scotland Thinks blog: &#8220;The \u2018gender gap\u2019 in support for independence has become one of the best known features of Scotland\u2019s political landscape in the run up to the referendum. Women have long been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18","wpcat-18-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}