New Survey Shows Unmarried Women Will Turn Out and Vote for Candidates Who Support Equal Pay and the Women’s Economic Agenda

A new survey by Democracy Corps and the Women’s Voices Women Vote Action Fund shows strong support for equal pay and other core elements on the Women’s Economic Agenda.

“The turnout and support of unmarried women and the rest of the Rising American Electorate–Latinos, African Americans and young voters–will determine the 2014 elections,” said Page Gardner, President and Founder of the Women’s Voices Women Vote Action Fund.

Do you want a job that makes a real difference in our democracy? If so, we might have a job for you. We’re hiring for several positions at Women’s Voices Women Vote Action Fund as we look to expand our mission to increase civic participation and balanced representation among the Rising American Electorate.

Last night on the Rachel Maddow Show, the MSNBC anchor highlighted the testing we did during the State of the Union. With pollster Stan Greenberg and Democracy Corps, the Women’s Voices Women Vote Action Fund conducted dial-meter testing of unmarried women gathered in Denver to watch the national address live.

Maddow recalled that after President Obama praised equal pay for women and declared, “I believe when women succeed, America succeeds,” lawmakers in the Capitol sprang to their feet for a roaring standing ovation.

Last night during the President’s State of the Union address, we handed dial meters to a sample group of unmarried women in Denver and asked them to turn the dials up when they heard a line they liked, and down when they didn’t.

Urges Congress to Act Swiftly to Ensure Fair Access to Ballot Box

Statement by WVWVAF President Page Gardner

January 16, 2014 – Washington, D.C. – Today, Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) joined a bipartisan group of U.S. Representatives in introducing legislation to modernize the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Survey Shows Unparalleled Support for Women’s Economic Agenda

WASHINGTON, DC – December 12, 2013 – The Affordable Care Act remains incredibly popular with people of color, unmarried women and other members of the Rising American Electorate, and a plurality in Republican districts and a majority in Democratic districts still support implementing “Obamacare” over repealing it.

For the past four years, the federal minimum wage has been stuck at just $7.25 per hour – a poverty-level wage. Millions of hard-working Americans making the minimum wage can’t afford the basics. It’s becoming especially tough for unmarried women, who experienced serious economic hard times within the past year.

That was the conclusion of a survey by Women’s Voices Women Vote Action Fund and Democracy Corps in March that found that members of the Rising American Electorate—unmarried women, African Americans, Latinos, other people of color and youth ages 18-29—were economically living on the edge.

WVWVAF founder Page Gardner has a new op-ed in the Huffington Post about Republicans’ attempts to reach out to women voters, and particularly unmarried women — and how those efforts are set back whenever Rush Limbaugh calls unmarried women “abortion machines” who are “looking to government for everything.”

Please check out Page’s op-ed, “News Flash: Republicans Discover Women Voters,” and share it to your social networks.

Democracy Corps and the Women’s Voices Women Vote Action Fund today released a new report on the role of unmarried women in the Virginia governor’s race. The report found that:

– Unmarried women made the difference in this election. Unmarried women voted for Terry McAuliffe by a decisive 42-point margin (67 to 25 percent).

“Governor-Elect Cuccinelli’s Stunning Upset.”

That’s the headline we’d be reading today if unmarried women had voted the same way as married women in yesterday’s Virginia gubernatorial election.

According to exit polling from Edison Media Research, 67% of unmarried women voted for Democrat Terry McAuliffe, compared to 25% for Republican Ken Cuccinelli.