Women's Campaign Contributions Are Seriously Lagging Behind Men's

Bustle - According to an analysis of campaign contributions over the last three elections, women are far less likely to donate to political campaigns than men. Women both contribute a smaller share to the total pool of donations and constitute a smaller percentage of actual donors, according to a new study from the National Council for Research on Women. What’s more, the gap between men and women donors seems to have widened, however slightly, over the last five years.Amongst donors who gave more than $200 to political causes in 2012, only 30.3 percent were women. That’s a slight increase from 2010, when women only comprised 26.4 percent of the same group, but it still means that male donors outnumbered female donors by a factor of roughly 2:1. And in 2008, women constituted 31.1 percent of $200+ donors, which was actually more than in 2012.See on www.bustle.com