Mike Pence is not alone, poll finds married people’s caution with opposite sex has mainstream support
On Twitter and in the press, liberals tarred Vice President Mike Pence as a fundamentalist patriarch, better suited for bygone eras of sexual inequality, when it was revealed that he avoids having meals alone with women other than his wife and from attending events without her where alcohol is served.
But a poll released before the holiday pretty much turns that on its head. It’s Pence who’s more in touch with the mainstream, and his detractors who are at the fringes.
A survey of 5,285 registered voters conducted in May by Morning Consult on behalf of the New York Times, probed whether a list of specific behaviors were appropriate to partake in with members of the opposite sex to whom a person is not married.
From the Times report:
Many men and women are wary of a range of one-on-one situations, the poll found. Around a quarter think private work meetings with colleagues of the opposite sex are inappropriate. Nearly two-thirds say people should take extra caution around members of the opposite sex at work. A majority of women, and nearly half of men, say it’s unacceptable to have dinner or drinks alone with someone of the opposite sex other than their spouse.
Fewer than half of women said it was appropriate to drive alone in a car with a man who is not their spouse.
Most men and women agreed it is appropriate to have work meetings with members of the opposite sex, but when it came to drinks and meals, in almost every question more men and women both saw such alone time as inappropriate than appropriate.
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Pence is not alone, poll finds married people's caution with opposite sex has mainstream support https://t.co/iFtek1Ytuu by @emilyjashinsky pic.twitter.com/JFQFOVTay2
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