In a recent post, Micha blames the modal libertarian's lack of sympathy with feminism for women's rejection of libertarianism:

It always amuses me when white male libertarians wonder why there are so few non-white non-male libertarians out there. This is why.

The problem with this hypothesis, at least with respect to women, is that it doesn't fit the data. According to the General Social Survey*, men are more than twice as likely as women to be atheists (3.6% vs. 1.6%) or agnostics (6.2% vs. 2.5%). I assume that those who agree with Micha's hypothesis would also agree with the proposition that atheists are, in general, much more feminist and/or "pro-woman" than the religious. By the same logic, we would expect women to be less religious than men; in fact the opposite is true.

My suspicion is that women tend towards different political beliefs than men do for the same reason they tend towards different religious beliefs—i.e., that there are differences in the way men and women think, and that these differences are rooted in biology. I can't prove this, and I'm not 100% sure of it, but it fits the available data better than the hypothesis Micha offers.

*I can't find a way to link to my data tabulation, so you'll have to reproduce the results yourself, but it's pretty simple if you can figure out how to use the software.

To clarify, I'm not saying that the evidence I cite proves that there are biologically-rooted differences in the way men and women think—lower rates of atheism amoung women could plausibly have cultural roots. I'm just pointing out that Micha's explanation for why women reject libertarianism—that it's dominated by anti-feminists—is inconsistent with their tendency to embrace religion, which is similarly dominated by anti-feminists. The last paragraph is just me stating my personal conjecture based on a variety of things.