As a followup to the reactions and comments to our recent post on women and voting, we offer the following reports from:

The Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP). 2026. “Gender Differences in Voter Registration and Turnout.” New Brunswick, NJ: Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick. https://cawp.rutgers.edu/data/voters/gender-differences-voter-registration-and-turnout (Accessed April 6, 2026).

Proportion of Eligible Adult Population Who Reported Voting

2020       men  65% = 72.5 million

                Women  68.4% = 82.2 million

2024          men  63.7 % = 72.8 million

                   Women  66.9% = 81.5 million

Methodology

Data are from the U.S. Bureau of the Census Current Population Reports, Series P-20, "Voting and Registration in the Election of November 1964" and subsequent reports for all years. These figures are from post-election responses to supplementary questions in the monthly Current Population Survey for a sample of households in November of each election year. Respondents to the survey report their own voting activity and that of other members of their household. The sample systematically over-reports both voting and registration by several million people. In years prior to 1996, the questions used to determine citizenship measures were asked in different ways, and the U.S. Bureau of the Census advises some caution in direct comparison across these years.

Key Data Points for Women in the U.S.

• 2020 Census:168,763,470 females (50.9% of the total population).
• 2024 Projections:~171.77 million females (based on data from, Note: alternative estimates exist based on specific data sets).
• 2024 Voter Statistics:Roughly 91.3 million women were projected to have voted in the 2024 election cycle. 

Progress Toward Gender Parity Stalled in Election 2024.

But There’s More to the Story.

The 2024 election did not mark significant changes in women’s political representation. While women’s representation increased at the state legislative level as a result of last year’s election, there were no net gains for women in statewide elective executive and congressional offices. The number of women governors momentarily reached a record high in early 2025, only to fall back to match the count of women top state executives serving in 2024. This report analyzes women’s electoral success in 2024, focusing on the numbers, and puts it into historical context — with special attention to how 2024 compared to the three elections that preceded it.

This report details the numeric gains and sites for stasis for women in congressional, statewide elective executive, and state legislative office, with particular attention to differences with men, between parties, and among women of different racial and ethnic groups. Together, they demonstrate that the trend toward gender parity in political leadership is inconsistent and that evaluating progress for women requires attentiveness to differences across party, race and ethnicity, geography, and time.

These outcomes for women came in the midst of a highly-contested presidential election wherein Vice President Kamala Harris (D) competed against former President Donald Trump (R). If successful, Harris – who became just the second woman major-party presidential nominee in U.S. history – would have been the first woman, first Black woman, and first South Asian person to be president of the United States. While neither gender nor race were sole determinants of her defeat, both were influential factors throughout the presidential contest and in ways beyond the identities of each nominee. Among some of the most salient issues were: abortion rights; rights of the transgender community; the promotion or pullback of diversity, equity, and inclusion policies; and regulation of education around gender and racial equity. In addition, candidates at and below the presidential level confronted – and in some cases fostered and leveraged – grievances around perceived gender and race-based threats. The women candidates central to this report’s analysis navigated this gendered and raced terrain of election 2024.

The bottom line is, if women vote, women win!  More women will be elected and more men who support women's issues will win!

By J. Lee Nelson

In 2022 midterms, 72 percent of women ages 18-29 voted for Democrats in House races nationwide.

The entirety of disregarded and underestimated women are a sleeping giant. Females influence more than 80 percent of all consumer purchases. We dominate activity on social media by more than a 55/45 split over males, and the influence gap is even wider because our messages are way more substantive. We also register and vote at a higher rate than men. When women finally harness and assert our full collective power to condemn injustice and obtain equal rights, we can move mountains for humanity by making politicians listen.

THERE WILL NEVER BE SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS IN GENDER EQUALITY, RACIAL EQUALITY AND ECONOMIC EQUALITY WITHOUT WOMEN AT THE FOREFRONT

A GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT THAT IS TOO BIG TO FAIL CAN ONLY BE LED BY WOMEN

Women in solidarity and the men that support them comprise a dominant popular majority that transcends boundaries. Women can create bridges and mighty alliances that expand civic participation among the many different groups and communities that they are important members of. Fearless, unapologetic and practical female leadership in America will have extraordinary reach and political impact. Female sensibilities and activism can inspire, unify and mobilize people of color, the working class, people in poverty, young people, senior citizens, and independent voters. The collective actions of those core groups and other passionate supporters can produce a quantum leap in voter turnout.

Females are generally more understanding, compassionate, unselfish and honorable than males. A study conducted by Facebook found that women are warmer and friendlier on social media than men are. As nurturers and family-oriented caregivers, maternal figures are more concerned about being respectful of others and would prefer a simpler and happier life. Women are terrific problem solvers because they are grounded, open, honest, tolerant, compromising and collaborative. By nature, we are better at channeling conversations toward reasonable and ethical outcomes. Though women are usually less biased, pretentious, and cruel than men, we are not weak.

WOMEN IN SOLIDARITY CAN CHANGE THE WORLD

Women In Solidarity can advance Democracy, human rights and world peace. The tipping point is simple. Women must come together and WORK TOGETHER to to stand up and speak up with a non-negotiable position of equality for all. We will not see a more harmonious, just and loving world until enough women get on the same page. Please reply to me if you are SERIOUS and want to contribute to achieving the objectives. We have to increase kindness and caring to defeat hatred and tyranny, Please help us propel a quantum leap in voter turnout so that we can permanently end the MAGA extremist and GOP fascist threat to Democracy, in 2024? WHEN WE VOTE, WE WIN!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/553563159754346 AND GUN REFORM You can also view our website: TruthJusticeAndCHOICE.com

We Can Do This! LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO.                                                                                                             

We don’t value readers so much. Or gayness, transness, wokeism, Marxism, feminism, or multiculturalism

By Diane Roberts

Why should this be important to you ?

Read the report first and the answer will follow.

Koch Industries revenue is $115.0B annually. After extensive research and analysis, Zippia's data science team found the following key financial metrics for this conglomerate of companies.

• Koch Industries has 100,000 employees, and the revenue per employee ratio is $1,150,000.
• Koch Industries peak revenue was $115.0B in 2022.Koch Industries, Inc. is an American multinational corporation based in Wichita, Kansas with subsidiaries involved in manufacturing, trading and investments. Koch also owns Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals and Matador Cattle Company. Companies owned by Koch Industries are involved in core industries such as the manufacturing, refining and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and many other ventures and investments.

• The staff at Koch Industries come from unusually diverse demographic backgrounds. The company is 36.3% female and 36.3% ethnic minorities. Despite its diversity in other areas, Koch Industries employees are noticeably lacking in political diversity. It has an unusually high proportion of employees who are members of the Republican Party, at 86.0%. Employees seem to enjoy working in an otherwise diverse workplace that is dominated by members of the Republican Party. Koch Industries has great employee retention with staff members usually staying with the company for 4.7 years. 
• The average employee at Koch Industries makes $61,443 per year. Pay at Koch Industries is significantly lower than some of its highest paying competitors, like ConocoPhillips, SquareTwo Financial, and Futures Group, which pay $104,408, $84,685, and $83,071, respectively. Remember Koch Industries made  $115.0B in 2022.

Forbes reports that Koch Industries, Inc. is one of the largest private companies in America, with estimated annual revenues that have exceeded $125 billion. It owns a diverse group of companies involved in manufacturing, agriculture, pulp and paper, packaging, consumer products, building materials, glass, automotive components, refining, renewable energy, chemicals and polymers, electronics, enterprise software, data analytics, medical products, engineered technology, project services, recycling, supply chain and logistics, global commodities trading, and investments. Since 2003, Koch companies have invested nearly $150 billion in growth and improvements. With a presence in more than 70 countries, Koch companies employ more than 120,000 people worldwide, with about half of those in the United States. 

Two observations about the facts presented above before we get to the substance of the answer to the WHY:

     1.  Many of the products and services controlled by Koch Industries are ones that are great polluters of our planet.  That couldn't have anything to do with the hoard of Republican deniers of the pollution

problems, could it?

     2.  This is in the form of a question.  The high percentage of women and ethnic minority employees wouldn't have anything to do with low wages and low turnover, would it?

Now to undeniable facts and not educated guesses.

"Open Secrets - Following The Money In Politics" does exactly what its' name says.  It follows the money in politics.  See for yourself by going to https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/C00236489/candidate-recipients/2022.

Exposed by CMD  https://www.exposedbycmd.org/ has reported:

In the 2020 election cycle, 28 organizations controlled by Charles Koch, his family, and Koch Industries executives spent a combined $1.1 billion, primarily to influence public policy and politics in the U.S., and had net revenues of $2.7 billion. 

By the end of 2020, the combined assets of these nonprofits totaled $2.8 billion, an increase of $1.5 billion from the beginning of the year.

Other comparably large conservative financiers such as the Bradley, Scaife and Searle foundations show significantly less in net revenue, expenditures, and assets.

KOCH INDUSTRIES, THE KOCH FAMILY,  AND THEIR EXECUTIVES HAVE TOO MUCH POWER OVER OUR GOVERNMENT AND ITS' POLICIES.  OUR DEMOCRACY WILL NOT SURVIVE IF THIS CONTINUES.

Let’s begin our commemoration of this month by learning about its’ beginning and the traditions that have become a part of it.

The following is documentation from the Library of Congress.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month is currently celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan. The Stonewall Uprising was a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States. In the United States the last Sunday in June was initially celebrated as "Gay Pride Day," but the actual day was flexible. In major cities across the nation the "day" soon grew to encompass a month-long series of events. Today, celebrations include pride parades, picnics, parties, workshops, symposia and concerts, and LGBTQ Pride Month events attract millions of participants around the world. Memorials are held during this month for those members of the community who have been lost to hate crimes or HIV/AIDS. The purpose of the commemorative month is to recognize the impact that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals have had on history locally, nationally, and internationally.

.In 1994, a coalition of education-based organizations in the United States designated October as LGBT History Month. In 1995, a resolution passed by the General Assembly of the National Education Association included LGBT History Month within a list of commemorative months. National Coming Out Day (October 11), as well as the first "March on Washington" in 1979, are commemorated in the LGBTQ community during LGBT History Month.

Annual LGBTQ+ Pride Traditions

The first Pride march in New York City was held on June 28, 1970, on the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising. Primary sources available at the Library of Congress provide detailed information about how this first Pride march was planned and the reasons why activists felt so strongly that it should exist. Looking through the Lili Vincenz and Frank Kameny Papers in the Library’s Manuscript Division, researchers can find planning documents, correspondence, flyers, ephemera and more from the first Pride marches in 1970. This, the first U.S. Gay Pride Week and March, was meant to give the community a chance to gather together to "...commemorate the Christopher Street Uprisings of last summer in which thousands of homosexuals went to the streets to demonstrate against centuries of abuse ... from government hostility to employment and housing discrimination, Mafia control of Gay bars, and anti-Homosexual laws" (Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee Fliers, Franklin Kameny Papers). The concept behind the initial Pride march came from members of the Eastern Regional Conference of Homophile Organizations (ERCHO), who had been organizing an annual July 4th demonstration (1965-1969) known as the "Reminder Day Pickets," at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. At the ERCHO Conference in November 1969, the 13 homophile organizations in attendance voted to pass a resolution to organize a national annual demonstration, to be called Christopher Street Liberation Day.

As members of the Mattachine Society of Washington, Frank Kameny and Lilli Vincenz participated in the discussion, planning, and promotion of the first Pride along with activists in New York City and other homophile groups belonging to ERCHO.

By all estimates, there were three to five thousand marchers at the inaugural Pride in New York City, and today marchers in New York City number in the millions. Since 1970, LGBTQ+ people have continued to gather together in June to march with Pride and demonstrate for equal rights.

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