Should Women Have To Register For The Draft Poll

Defence force

Poll: Most women oppose registering for draft

About women said they are opposed to having to register for the draft in a new Rasmussen Reports poll.

In contrast, a majority of men said they would support having women annals, according to the poll released Wednesday.

{mosads}The poll found that 52 percent of women oppose requiring women to register, while 38 per centum favor information technology and 10 percent are undecided.

Sixty-one percent of male respondents favored requiring that women register.

Overall, the divide was more than even, with 49 percent supporting and 44 percent opposing.

Most Republicans, 53 per centum, said they oppose making women annals for the typhoon, while 49 percent of Democrats said they favor it.

The poll comes after two top generals said they retrieve women should exist required to register for the draft and two House Republicans introduced a bill that would crave it.

Discussions on women in the draft take arisen in recent weeks as lawmakers and military officials work to implement Defense Secretarial assistant Ashton Carter's lodge to open up all gainsay positions to women.

Some accept argued that gild means there's no longer a reason to exclude women from the draft.

Support for the draft in general is low. Overall, 29 percent said they think the United States should accept a armed services typhoon. Support for a draft from men was at 36 percent and women at 21 percent.

Rasmussen surveyed 1,000 likely voters by phone from February. three to 4. The margin of fault is 3 percentage points.