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title: "Electing a Woman President"
description: "That's the percentage of Americans who say that electing a woman president would be a good thing, a 55% majority say they do not think the gender for the president matters and 9% think a woman president would be a bad thing."
date: "2007-11-02"
authors:
  - name: "Russell Heimlich"
    job_title: "Former web developer"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2007/11/02/electing-a-woman-president/"
---

# Electing a Woman President

While a solid majority of Americans (55%) say they do not think the gender of the president matters, 33% say it would be a good thing to elect a woman president, while just 9% believe it would be a bad thing. Nationally, 42% of women say it would be good to elect a woman president, compared with 24% of men, and the gap is largest among younger generations. About twice as many women ages 18-29 as men in the same group say it would be good to have a woman president (50% vs. 24%). By comparison, there is virtually no gender gap among Americans age 65 and over (31% women and 26% of men say “good thing”). Views about a woman president in general are highly correlated with party. Democrats are twice as likely as Republicans (42% vs. 21%) to say electing a woman would be a good thing. [Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/626/republicans-political-terrain)