WV exit poll 1992

[Statilius the Epicurean]

In the 20th century men were traditionally more left-leaning than women because of the influence of trades unions. Also religion, one of the arguments advanced against female suffrage in countries like France was that women were all indoctrinated by the Catholic Church.

There's that song by John Lee Hooker about Eisenhower in 1952, "Democrats put us on our feet, the crazy women they voted them out (...) The men vote them in, the women vote them out".