---
title: "Americans’ views of women as political leaders differ by gender"
description: "For the most part, Americans – including similar shares of men (74%) and women (76%) – said in a 2014 Pew Research Center survey that women and men make equally good political leaders"
date: "2016-05-19"
authors:
  - name: "Seth Rubenstein"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2016/05/19/americans-views-of-women-as-political-leaders-differ-by-gender/"
datasets:
  - name: "Gender and Leadership"
    url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/dataset/gender-leadership/"
  - name: "Gender and Leadership Omnibus"
    url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/dataset/gender-and-leadership-omnibus/"
---

# Americans’ views of women as political leaders differ by gender