Dennis Prager remarks that most women, if asked, will embrace the label ”feminist.” The remark inspired me to do a few minutes of Googling.
A Vox poll from 2015 found that only 18 percent of respondents considered themselves feminists. I didn’t find a breakdown by sex, but women were 52 percent of the sample. Even if every man in the poll rejected the label, there’s no way a majority of women accepted it.
A YouGov poll from 2016 found that only 32 percent of women said yes to the label, while 45 percent said no.
But a Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation poll from last year found higher rates of self-identification as feminist, perhaps because it gave respondents both the options of “strong feminist” and “feminist” (as well as “not a feminist,” “anti-feminist,” and “no opinion”). In that poll, 17 percent of women chose “strong feminist” and 43 percent chose “feminist.”
I conclude that it is fair to say that whether most American women consider themselves feminists is at least open to dispute.






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