Christina Wolbrecht

Indeed. It’s also a consistent critique of the second wave from the very beginning. Suffragists and social reformers in the 19th and early 20th century also critiqued this dynamic.

Look, women no longer do shit for free is actually at the root of a lot of social disruption. The question is whether you think the solution is women going back to being unpaid and unprotected by their own labor.

And my husband--the only one of us who reads the local paper--tells me! It's called delegation, and is a sign of intelligence and sophistication.

Why? Even without the vote, women were politically active in movements and groups. They had access to political information through the press, conversation, and their own lived experience--who better to know about inflation than the person who does all the household shopping?

Look, I'll take cites wherever I can find them.

You're the best, Nathan! Kevin and I talk about this explicitly in A Century of Votes for Women. I love the quote from CE Ladd especially.

People knew this at the time that those classics were being written! This is the New York Times in 1956:

Indeed!

This is the only gift my husband wants, ever.

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Their key evidence is that husbands & wives tend to vote the same way. One explanation is men instruct. Another is that marriage is predicted by factors (e.g., educ, religion, etc) which also predict vote choice.

My husband & I always vote the same. Should we conclude that he tells me how to vote?

I am saying that none of these social scientists collected data that can test those claims. E.g., they did not ask husbands if they told their wives how to vote, or vice versa. Some men might have told their wives how to vote, but we cannot determine if and how widespread from their research.

The conventional wisdom for decades has been that women were in fact more likely than men to support conservative parties after suffrage. @teele.bsky.social and Evelyne Brie have a paper challenging that conclusion: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I can't find it rn, but there's an interesting paper on the impact of this dynamic in Latin America. The Catholic church believed women would vote for them/their parties, but advocating for suffrage was contrary to the traditional gender roles they favored.

what a bad ass

Where's @nathankalmoe.bsky.social's meme for THIS?

I don't know. It will never happen, but I might like to be called "unfailingly elegant" in my obit. One of you make sure that happens.

I think the original vote studies are AMAZING. They got so much right, stuff that remains right TODAY. But they read their data through the lenses of their own biases and assumptions. We're probably doing more than a little of that ourselves...

Women *were* more likely to talk to a family member about politics than men were. Does that necessarily mean husbands told them how to vote? If you don't work outside of the home, the probability that your discussion partner on any issue is a family member is high.

Our great pioneers of the scientific study of mass behavior didn't have much evidence to support their confident conclusions.

To be fair, Converse at least didn't think very highly of most people's political competence.

Today is a good day to remind you that none of the classic vote studies thought very highly of women's political competence.

Two things from the obit:

Maybe she didn't have a PhD, but she published a book and scientific papers in journals.

Her Michigan colleagues describe her as "as bright and intellectually gifted as they come" and also "an unfailingly elegant person."

Social scientist and historian of survey research Jean Converse dies at 90 Jean McDonnell Converse, a social scientist, historian of survey research, and expert in interview techniques, died on January 25, 2018, in Park Ridge, Ill. Converse’s work served two very important r...

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I mean, he said women lacked the sophistication to understand political issues to the extent their husbands did while married to a pollster with a PhD.

Ken.

Delete all apps immediately.

It just oozes Cold War.

For about 10 years I regularly walked through this building (to get out of the cold) and not once was I bitten by a radioactive spider. Disappointed.