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What Women Voters Want Politicians to Hear
Simon and Schuster
May 2007
On Sale: May 1, 2007
240 pages
ISBN: 0743278968
EAN: 9780743278966
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Soon after the 2004 presidential election, veteran reporter
Melinda Henneberger set out across the country to listen to
women of all ages and occupations express their strong
opinions on the major issues of our time. Over eighteen
months she spoke in depth and at length with more than two
hundred women in twenty states, from Massachusetts to
Arizona and Oregon to Texas. She discovered how unheard
women feel, how ignored and disregarded by both major
parties and by most politicians. Listening to women all over the nation -- not only on what
are traditionally thought of as "women's issues" but on
issues of paramount importance to all Americans --
Henneberger shines a light on what women voters are thinking
and how that translates into how and for whom they vote. The issues that these women focused on were Iraq, abortion,
the environment, globalization (and job loss), and
corruption (and lack of trust) in the government and the
entire electoral process. Again and again these women of all
ages, social classes, and regions returned to the matter of
authenticity. And they came back again and again to their
commonly held feeling that neither party takes any genuine
interest in their actual lives, that politicians across the
board seem, as a young waitress in Sacramento put it, "to be
talking about people who don't exist." A patient, sensitive, experienced, intelligent listener,
Henneberger reports how women feel about the nation's
politics and politicians. Her findings will surprise you.
Knowing the answers these women give will tell you a great
deal about how the next presidential and other elections
will be decided.
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