--- title: Republican Party: Women Find GOP Intolerant, Report Says description: A gender gap persists canonical: https://time.com/3206821/republican-party-gop-women/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-28T15:05:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:47:42.740Z article:section: Politics og:title: Republican Party: Women Find GOP Intolerant, Report Says og:description: A gender gap persists og:url: https://time.com/3206821/republican-party-gop-women/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte034e0d0597d71c4/6986a14606f2c177d73307be/gop.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2833 og:image:height: 1594 og:image:alt: The Republican Party's elephant symbol is seen on display on October 24, 2000 at the Republican campaign headquarters in El Paso, Texas. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Republican Party: Women Find GOP Intolerant, Report Says twitter:description: A gender gap persists twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte034e0d0597d71c4/6986a14606f2c177d73307be/gop.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Women Find GOP 'Intolerant,' Report Says > Sponsored content. 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The Republican Party's elephant symbol is seen on display on October 24, 2000 at the Republican campaign headquarters in El Paso, Texas. Joe Raedle—Getty Images by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Aug 28, 2014 3:05 PM UTC Female voters have sharply negative views of the Republican Party, [according to a new report of internal polling done by major GOP groups](http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/gop-poll-of-women-party-stuck-in-past-110398.html), the latest sign of the gender gap facing the party as it tries to recapture the White House in 2016. _Politico_, which obtained a copy of the Republican polling, reports it found that many women consider the GOP “intolerant” and “stuck in the past.” The Republican groups that commissioned the polling, the Karl Rove-led Crossroads GPS and the American Action Network, hosted eight focus groups over the summer and survey about 800 registered women voters. Pollsters found that 49% of women have an unfavorable view of Republicans, while just 39% feel the same about Democrats, _Politico_ reports. The establishment-friendly GOP groups are warning that Republican elected officials “fail to speak to women in the different circumstances in which they live” They’re advising officials to champion equal pay policies, and suggesting Republicans change the way they handle the issue of abortion: “Deal honestly with any disagreement on abortion, then move to other issues,” the report says. Republicans are expected to easily keep their majority in the House and may even recapture the majority in the Senate during the coming midterm elections. But the gender gap will be more troublesome in the 2016 presidential election, especially if Hillary Clinton is the Democratic nominee. \[[_Politico_](http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/gop-poll-of-women-party-stuck-in-past-110398.html)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3206821/republican-party-gop-women/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3206821/republican-party-gop-women/"},"headline":"Women Find GOP 'Intolerant,' Report Says","datePublished":"2014-08-28T15:05:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:47:42.740Z","description":"A gender gap persists","url":"https://time.com/3206821/republican-party-gop-women/","keywords":["republicans","women","2016 Election","elections","Voting","Election","2014 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte034e0d0597d71c4/6986a14606f2c177d73307be/gop.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte034e0d0597d71c4/6986a14606f2c177d73307be/gop.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The Republican Party's elephant symbol is seen on display on October 24, 2000 at the Republican campaign headquarters in El Paso, Texas.","caption":"The Republican Party's elephant symbol is seen on display on October 24, 2000 at the Republican campaign headquarters in El Paso, Texas.","creditText":"Joe Raedle—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/republicans/","name":"republicans"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3206821/republican-party-gop-women/","name":"Women Find GOP 'Intolerant,' Report Says"}}]}] ```