Women Continued to Outvote Men in 2024 Despite Overall Drop in Turnout

August 26, 2025 marks the 105th anniversary of the certification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited denying or abridging citizens' right to vote on account of sex. While turnout among women voters lagged men's turnout immediately after suffrage due to formal and informal contributors to disenfranchisement, the gender gap in turnout slowly closed after 1960 (Corder and Wolbrecht 2021). 

In every presidential election since 1980, the proportion of eligible female adults who voted, as well as the number of women voters, has exceeded the proportion and total number of eligible male adults who voted; the gender gap in voter turnout has shifted in the opposite direction than that observed immediately post-suffrage. This pattern continued in election 2024, when women again outvoted and outnumbered men. In fact, the turnout rate for women voters in 2024 was the second highest in all presidential elections since 1980. 

 

 

Despite ranking high in women's turnout rates across history, 2024 did mark a drop in women voter turnout from 2020. 

  • A drop in both women's and men's turnout occurred across every racial group from 2020 to 2024, though the drop was smallest among white voters (men and women), with white women’s 2024 turnout nearly matching the rate in 2020.

  • A drop in both women's and men's turnout occurred across all age groups below 65, with the largest drops by gender among men aged 18-24 and women aged 25-44. The only age groups where turnout increased from 2020 to 2024 were women and men aged 75+, and women aged 65-74 matched their turnout rate from 2020.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In 2024, some of the largest gender differences in voter turnout were among young (<45 years old) Asian and Hispanic voters, and Black voters across all age groups. Women outvoted their male counterparts in each of those cases.

 

 

 

 

Since 1980, women have voted at higher rates than men in all racial groups except for among Asian  voters. Asian women have voted at higher rates than their male counterparts in 2020 and 2024.

 

 

 

 

Since 1996, women have voted at higher rates than men in all age groups below 65 years old. The 2024 election marked the first since 2008 that women ages 65-74 turned out at higher rates than their male counterparts.