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Women voters have received special attention from the presidential candidates in recent elections primarily because of differences between women and men in their political preferences, a phenomenon commonly referred to as the gender gap. Statistically, a gender gap can be defined as the difference between the proportion of women and the proportion of men who support a particular politician, party, or policy position. In the 2020 presidential election, the winning candidate, Democrat Joe Biden, received 57 percent of women’s votes, compared with 45 percent of men’s, resulting in a gender gap of twelve percentage points.
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