Exclusive: Poll finds women, including Republicans, like Biden's child care initiative
Source: USA Today
Maureen Groppe
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON – A new poll highlights the many challenges women have faced during the pandemic, with about half of those surveyed saying they’ve suffered from depression, anxiety or other mental health issues since the crisis began.
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But the Lake Research Partners survey, provided first to USA TODAY, also suggests the overarching goal of gender equity – which President Joe Biden has emphasized – is not as significant to women as are specific types of help, such as improving health care access. That’s particularly true for independents and Republican women.
What women want: Health care and child care
Fewer than half of all women surveyed said that enforcing gender equity by including provisions in the $1.9 trillion coronavirus assistance package to support women would have "a big impact, or "some impact," on themselves and their family. Only 39% of independents and 25% of GOP women said it would.
But around 6 in 10 respondents, including more than 4 in 10 Republican women, said that expanding health care coverage and lowering health insurance premiums would have “a big impact” or “some impact.”
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/04/22/exclusive-poll-shows-pandemic-has-taken-mental-health-toll-on-women/7307509002
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