A former CEO of the National Council of Negro Women and the Business and Professional Women/USA organization, Smith said people have been both “intrigued and surprised” by the study’s results.
However, Tinaz Pavri, an associate professor and the chair of Spelman’s Department of Political Science, said that after reading the write-up in the LEADS study and seeing the study’s results, she wasn’t surprised.
“From what our students have been saying, they have a number of different motivations for who they vote for, including race and gender, but also the candidate who best represents their positions and these positions are different depending on who they are,” Pavri said.
The survey was conducted nationwide via telephone. All 905 female respondents were head of household, over 18, and registered Democrats who said they planned to vote in the next presidential election. The randomly selected respondents included 305 Black women, 300 Hispanic women and 300 other minority women including Asian/Pacific Islanders and Native Americans.
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