#tellusatoday: What accounts for election gender gap?

We asked our readers on Twitter why women favor Obama in this election. Here's what they had to say.

I strongly support equal pay for equal work and believe this gives women and their children the leverage to live in homes of mutual faithfulness and mutual respect.

--@DeborahASolomon

The Obama camp has been good at taking focus off real issues like the economy and putting them on women's rights.

--@eldipablo

GOP is against women's right to safe legal abortion, against birth control and against women making their own decisions.

--@GrainOfSands

Women don't like to be treated like property!

--@AntarianRani

Women think more long-term than men. Health care, equality are long-term issues. Wars on 'terror'? Easy to start, hard to escape.

--@yrofcreation