What women want

The strength and uniformity of support for the notion that the West is not treated well by Ottawa indicates that political discontent in the West is an integral part of the political culture for women and men. [...] These provincial samples are In Canada, there has been relatively little examination of the large enough to allow meaningful analysis of opinion differences between the opinions of men and women on public in a single province and among sub-sections of the policy. [...] Interestingly, highly in the political activities examined in the 2006 Looking West informed women are found more often on the left side of the Survey. [...] In the will be gender differences on opinions of social welfare policies 2000 federal election, the same 11 point gender difference in evident in the results of the Looking West Surveys. [...] While it is not the duty of this report to investigate the causes of the gender gaps, it is worth noting the competing The gender gap in vote choice emerged over a decade earlier in reasons they exist.