Structure of the Female Electorate, Italy. Mid 1990s, Late 2010s and change
| Mid 1990s | Late 2010s | Change (pp) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Working Women | Housewives | Retired | Other | Working women | Housewives | Retired | Other | Working women | Housewives | Retired | |
| National Female Electorate | 34.5% | 36.9% | 15% | 13.6% | 42.2% | 14.8% | 27% | 15.9% | +7.7 | −22,1 | +12 |
| Mainstream Right (FI) | 36.6% | 43.9% | 10.6% | 9.0% | 12.4% | 28.4% | 44.9% | 14.2% | −24.2 | −15.5 | +34.3 |
| Mainstream Left (PDS/PD)1 | 31.1% | 34% | 13.8% | 21.0% | 36.5% | 9.0% | 42.9% | 11.5% | +5.4 | −25 | +29.1 |
| Mid 1990s | Late 2010s | Change (pp) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Working | Housewives | Retired | Other | Working women | Housewives | Retired | Other | Working women | Housewives | Retired | |
| National Female Electorate | 34.5% | 36.9% | 15% | 13.6% | 42.2% | 14.8% | 27% | 15.9% | +7.7 | −22,1 | +12 |
| Mainstream Right (FI) | 36.6% | 43.9% | 10.6% | 9.0% | 12.4% | 28.4% | 44.9% | 14.2% | −24.2 | −15.5 | +34.3 |
| Mainstream Left (PDS/PD)1 | 31.1% | 34% | 13.8% | 21.0% | 36.5% | 9.0% | 42.9% | 11.5% | +5.4 | −25 | +29.1 |
Source(s): Authors' elaboration based on EES and ISSP. For the mid 1990s we relied on ISSP 1996 “Role of the Government”. For the late 2010s, we used ESS8
1: In the 1990s the Italian mainstream left party was the Party of the Left Democrats (PDS), which, at the end of the 2000s, merged with another, Catholic-oriented center-left party and established the Democratic Party (PD)