The Internet site that I chose to relate to my blog is pbs.org.  However although the site doesn’t relate solely to my topic of women in politics, it does provide thousands of stories and reports on women in politics and other issues of the sort. This media site is made to inform the public about news from all over the world, and not just news that is covered on the PBS television station, but from other television and radio stations as well as stories from all over the world in news papers, journals, magazines, and other scholarly sources.  This site has become very helpful in providing me with topics to blog about as well as my own personal interest reading.  Two of the stories I used from this website were both related to Sara Palin and her influence in the recent presidential election.  Another article I used was about Palin’s negative support that she was receiving from the female population in not only Alaska her home state, but in other high women’s rights states as well, such as Connecticut and Michigan.   These aren’t the only articles that I pulled from this site.  I have used two other blogs that have been influenced by information that I found on this site.  I would recommend this site to anyone that needs to research information that is covered by any type of media.        

Do women want to elect a female president?

Do women base their support for a candidate on the type of gender?  Will the female vote swing towards senator Clinton over Obama?  Obviously not since the democratic election is over and Senator Obama won.  However my question is that do you think the majority of the women vote would sway towards the women candidate?  I’m pretty sure there are a lot of men in the United States that would sway there vote away from a female candidate because they are female.  I have personally heard people say things during this years election about how America isn’t ready to have a women be president.  There are many old fashioned people in this country that are firm believers that women have no place in office and they should leave the “real work” for the men to take care of.  Coincidently these old fashioned minds happen to make up one of the larger age group of voters in our country.  Do you think the women in this age group would then support a female candidate because she is female or side on her husband’s side of the issue?  According to various Pollsters mentioned in Aida F. Akl’s article Women Influence U.S. Politics, women do not show any difference in there vote based on whether the candidate is male or female.  Victoria Budson, Executive director of the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard University claims that women voters are more tuned into the issues that are meaningful to their lives rather than which candidate will push for women’s rights more or which gender each candidate is.  I personally feel that a person should vote for whom will best benefit there lives, however wouldn’t supporting a woman candidate help every other woman in America’s cause.  It would defiantly make sense if the majority of women votes when to senator Clinton in her push for the presidency.  I would feel that during the women’s rights movement in the 70’s a firm majority of registered female voters would have voted for senator Clinton just because she was a female and would have brought more power and voice to women across the country.  Does this mean women are happy with the rights, privilege, and equality standards they have now?  Are they still out to gain complete equality in all acts of life?    

Women Influence U.S. Politics

By: Aida F. Akl’s

http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2008-01/2008-01-15-voa6.cfm