Avengers of the Week | Dotty Lynch, Pollster

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Dotty Lynch has been credited with developing the concept of the gender gap and was considered to be one of the first authorities on women in politics. After she worked for Cambridge Survey Research in the 1970s, where she was a political advisor for the presidential campaigns of George McGovern and Jimmy Carter and eventually became Cambridge’s vice president in 1976, Lynch worked on the presidential campaign of Sen. Edward Kennedy. In 1983, she opened her own political polling firm, Lynch Research, becoming the first chief woman pollster in a presidential campaign when she worked for Gary Hart.

When Dotty passed away in 2014, Dotty’s friend and GenderAvenger founder Gina Glantz wrote this in a tribute to Dotty: “Some day we will do a poll – or maybe we will do annual polls — to show how important it is for women to be part of the public dialog and they will be dedicated to Dotty Lynch.”

Dotty would be pleased to know that GenderAvenger just launched its 5th annual poll and is just as committed to keeping women in the public dialogue as Dotty was.

Dotty Lynch made putting women in the public dialog her life's work. She was credited with the concept of the gender gap & considered to be one of the first authorities on women in politics. #AvengerOfTheWeek #GenderAvenger https://www.genderavenger.com/blog/avengers-of-the-week-dotty-lynch