Kelly Dittmar

director of research at Rutger University’s Center for American Women and Politics

Project director of Gender Watch 2018 and an assistant professor and scholar at Rutgers' Center for American Women and Politics

Kelly Dittmar on KCRW

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Why Harris lost ground with women voters – and Trump made gains

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