Most definitely there is a gender gap.  It's gradually lessening, but I'm sure women are very impatient about the pace.  Considering that the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which granted women the right to vote, was (finally) passed by Congress in 1919 (can you believe women weren't allowed to vote until then?), we haven't made great gender-equality strides in all that time.  We've had relatively few women in Congress, particularly before the last decade or so, and only now is a woman being seriously considered as a candidate for President for the first time.  Why is that?  And last I heard, many women still are being paid less to do the same work as a man.  How do you spell g-e-n-d-e-r  g-a-p?  Men will have to be led kicking and screaming to accept women on a truly equal basis, as they were when called upon to pass the 19th Amendment (it was introduced in the all-male Congress in 1878, but wasn't passed until 1919).  Pretty lame for a country that proselytizes democracy so insistently to the rest of the world.  Maybe we should get our own house in order before we take other nations to task.  Ah, but it's always easier to talk the talk than to walk the walk, isn't it, in this as in everything else.  As the saying goes, put your money where your mouth is, and we all should.

There is a political gender gap for sure.  Almost 2 out of every three white men in the USA support the GOP.  What is the reason?  White men have left the Democratic party in droves since the days of JFK.  Jimmy Carter managed to get 43% of the white male vote, and you see where that took the country.

Pollsters think that John Kerry received 37% of the white male vote which is high recently.

The political gender gap is not so much women moving one way as men moving the other.  Women have not changed much over the last generation.

To the extent that we all have different talents. Women are just as tough as men in many respects and are just as capable. I don't think we'd have the patience to go through 9 months of pregnancy. Likewise, there aren't too many women out there who can play pro-football at the same level as their male counterparts. The bottom line is that we've got to respect each others talents, abilities and differences a bit more. Gaps are natural in a society that's not exactly homogenous; it's a part of life. In some instances, I don't believe that it's fair that women are paid less than men in certain service-industry jobs, especially when the workload is the same as their male counterparts. The question of whether the government should intervene is a much tricker issue. Usually they make matters worse, the reality is that it will change only when people demand it by mass movement. Since when has bureaurcracy won a social fight?

Umm, no.