CONTRARY TO THE UNSUPPORTED HYPE IN EVELYN NIEVES’ ANTI-WAR PUFF PIECE mentioned below, this piece from the Christian Science Monitor says women are supporting the war in record numbers:

Today, a majority of women support sending ground troops to Iraq. Indeed, unlike most other issues on the national landscape, a majority of American men and women are of one mind on the matter of waging war.

Women are actually slightly more likely than men to support President Bush on sending ground troops to Iraq – 58 percent of women to 56 percent of men, according to a recent survey by CNN. Other polls, too, confirm that.

Unlike Nieves’ piece — which basically quotes antiwar activists saying how successful they are — this piece has actual data. Imagine that.

Of course, Nieves may be right. The women she interviewed were largely Vietnam-era protesters starting a second career — rather than “mothers against war,” they should probably be called “grandmothers against war.” And the Monitor piece reports an interesting age-related intragender gap:

This is perceptible in the intragender gap that exists among women according to age. Younger women are more supportive than their older counterparts of the president’s war effort. That same CNN poll showed that 66 percent of women between the ages of 18 and 49 support going to war, compared with less than half – 48 percent – of women aged 50 or older.

Hmm. So women who are actually of childbearing age are more likely to support war than their menopausal moms. Yep — “grandmothers against war” sounds about right. And that’s in keeping with the general Boomer-nostalgia tenor of the antiwar movement.