Do women like politics?

In case you can't tell, I am one of those very unfeminine women who likes politics. You know, we all have cankles...kidding. I have very nice ankles. But that's the stereotype.
But male political bloggers find it much more fun to hold forth on how men and women are different, and that's what it must be. Ever notice how the argument is always made palatable by casting men in a slightly unflattering light, as Matt does here by suggesting that men are obsessive in ways that women are not? But by chalking up obsessiveness to masculinity, you run the risk of insinuating that women just don't have the brain power to obsess over anything, that is, have a complex hobby. And that belief haunts Matt's post, even though I doubt he means it to:

All the political magazines have overwhelmingly male readerships, and surveys consistently show that women are less informed about politics than men, even when you do controls for income and educational attainment. I saw one book which alleged that women are even less likely than men to be able to correctly identify a candidate's position on abortion, despite the CW that women care about this more than men. Indeed, the research even showed that women do care about this more than men, in that among those who knew where the candidates stood, it was more likely to be a factor in women's voting decisions.

My thoughts on this are that there's a number of reasons women tend to be less political. No doubt one of those reasons is that women just have less time to get educated on politics. After working all day, most men come home and watch some TV, including the news which is on right around when they get home. But most women come home and cook and clean. I know that I can't settle in to watch TV well until the news is off; I have to make dinner.
But more than that--chalking up women's lack of representation in politics to sexual differences that can't be avoided is just so much post-feminist nonsense. Women have been pressured out of and outright excluded from politics throughout the history of this country. For god's sake, it's only been a little over 80 years that we've had the right to vote! And it's been less than a generation since there's been a noticable change in how women vote, from voting their husband's interests to voting their own alot of the time. And even then, I wouldn't say that most married women feel at all comfortable expressing opinions different from their husbands, and the fact that married women tend to vote and be more conservative than single women seems to be evidence for that.
On top of that, you have the old-fashioned social pressures against female intelligence. There's plenty of women who start off as brainy, opinionated types as children, just like men, and are ground down while growing up, especially in their teenage years. And the pressure continues well into adulthood. Being equal to men means that many women will be ______ more than alot of men, be it richer, smarter, whatever. And those women tend to be on the receiving end of name-calling (ball-buster) or jokes about their sexuality.

Oh, and if you disagree with my contention that ambitious and intelligent girls are still actively and enthusiatically put down and ground down, you might want to check out something I posted just yesterday.