GOP Pushes Back on "War on Women" Notion
CNN
By Dana Bash and Paul Steinhauser
Friday, February 7, 2014

According to the CNN/ORC International poll, which was released Friday, 55% of Americans surveyed say the GOP doesn't understand women. That number rises to 59% among all women and 64% among women over 50. "That last number is intriguing, since older women are more likely to vote Republican than younger women. Yet younger women don't have as much of a problem with the GOP on this measure," CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said.

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"Republican Rep. Renee Ellmers of North Carolina agrees the problem is more about tone than policy. 'We're concerned about education for their children. We're concerned about jobs, we're concerned about the success of women in this country. The problem is, for whatever reason, we haven't been able to articulate it as well as we should.'"

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"And that's what Ellmers is trying to do. She is part of a party effort to recruit more female candidates. 'We're fighting so hard to get more women elected. we have to be more representative of the American public,' Ellmers said. But she and her party have a long way to go. Right now only 19 of the 232 House Republicans are women."