A Morning Consult poll released Tuesday found that women are disproportionately represented among senators with the highest disapproval ratings.
The survey, which polled 85,000 registered voters between January and March, revealed six women fall in the list of the top 10 senators with the highest overall disapproval in their states. That means women make up 46 percent of the list (which includes 13 total senators because of several ties) despite only making up 21 percent of the Senate.
Furthermore, only one female lawmaker, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, made it onto the list of the 10 senators with the highest approval ratings.
Women who made the list of legislators with highest disapproval ratings in their states include Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Ala., Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev.
Four of those six women, interestingly enough, advocated against Trump in states that he won in November, including Murkowski, a Republican.
In fairness, the poll’s margins of error differ from state to state, with Murkowski’s figure facing one of the highest margins of errors at six percent. The disapproval ratings of the women in the bottom 10 are also bunched together, ranging from between 40 percent and 37 percent.
Nevertheless, just last Thursday, Hillary Clinton bitterly bemoaned what she believes is society’s impulse to disapprove of more successful women, telling Nicholas Kristof, “The more successful, and therefore ambitious, a woman is, the less likable she becomes.”
Perhaps Morning Consult found that Americans believe these women are simply too successful. Or maybe they just need to step up their game. Either way, Elizabeth Warren and her female colleagues have a lot of “persisting” to do in the months ahead.
Emily Jashinsky is a commentary writer for the Washington Examiner.
