Poll: Conservative women less likely than liberal women to feel they were unfairly passed over for a raise or promotion

A recent Gallup poll suggests that most women do not feel that they were unfairly denied a promotion.

According to the poll, from Gallup’s annual Work and Education survey, conducted Aug. 7-11, 2013, most women do not perceive that they have been a victim of gender bias at work when it comes to promotions and raises in particular.

Fifteen percent of U.S. working women say they have at some point felt passed over for a promotion or opportunity at work because of their gender, while 85% say they have never felt that way. These perceptions are similar by age, educational attainment, and employment in a professional or non-professional job, Gallup said.

Republican women and conservative women are slightly less likely than all other groups of women to feel they have been passed over for a promotion due to their gender, according to Gallup. They are also less likely to have felt gender discrimination in obtaining raises. Liberal women are the only group to perceive more gender discrimination in both promotions and raises than their demographic or socioeconomic counterparts. Together, these findings reveal that there may be some political or ideological issues at play in perceptions of gender fairness in the workplace.

Gallup said that when men were polled on the same questions, they were much less likely to say they felt they were denied a promotion or raise because of their gender.