Source: Jewish Exponent
http://www.jewishexponent.com/Zoom.asp?uid=&storyID=23086&show=Zoom&pubID=286&subact=Cover
On October 28, 2004 Jewish Exponent reported, "in past campaigns and through the bitterly contested 2000 election, it was clear that women voted differently from men. The so-called 'gender gap,' as evidenced from exit polling and telephone surveys, showed women tending to back Democratic candidates, with men likely to throw their support to Republicans... Now, however, analysts dispute the very existence of such a gap. Some question whether it existed in the first place. Diana Eck, director of the Pluralism Project at Harvard University, which coordinated a conference on the effects of gender and religion on voting preference, held last month at the National Press Club in Washington, noted that in the 2000 election, married white women tended to be split rather evenly between both major parties. “The gender gap that year was created by black women and Latino women - women of color - but Jewish women as well,” reported Eck. 'Those are the communities that tend to be heavily in the direction of Democrats. Jewish women, for instance, can be considered almost a given for the Democratic Party.'"