Replication Data for: American Party Women Redux: Stability in Partisan Gender Gaps

Despite ideological sorting among partisans, as of 2012, gender gaps over policy preferences persist within political parties—particularly among Republicans. Republican women report more moderate views than Republican men across a range of policy areas. These gaps are largely attributed to gender differences in beliefs about the appropriate scope of government and attitudes toward gender-based inequality. Nonetheless, we argue that gender became an even more salient feature of politics between the 2016 and 2012 elections. This raises questions about whether the within party gaps are stable over time. Using survey data from the 2012 and 2016 American National Election Study we evaluate whether gender gaps in policy preferences are stable across elections, or if the 2016 context affected the magnitude of gender differences in policy preferences. We find that despite the increased salience of gender in 2016, within party gender gaps are fairly stable across the two periods.