Why Do Some Women Buy Into Right-Wing Ideology? ^50.8%

Slate Magazine - By Laura Miller - 7/5/2026, 9:45 AM

Biased Writer Voice 47.3% - Negativity Bias 27.7% - Anecdotal 25.5%

Sharon, one of the 85 women interviewed by academic Katie Gaddini for her insightful new book Esther’s Army: The Christian Women Who Power the American Right, lives in Portland, Oregon, “a famously liberal administration in a notoriously blue state.” Because Sharon is Black, everyone at the state government office where she works assumes... more