A ladies' first?(women donors)

OF THE MANY GENDER gaps in the political arena, one of the most persistent has been the donor gap. As recently as 2000, women donors were responsible for just one-quarter of hard-money contributions greater than $200 to political candidates, and just one-seventh to one-eighth of soft-money contributions to political parties.

Because most donations were large donations in the pre-Internet political world, that meant that politics was mainly funded by men who, according to a 1999 report by the National Center for Policy Analysis, have tended to see giving to political candidates as a ...

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