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Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump reacts to a questioner in the audience during a CNN town hall. | AP Photo Poll: Seven-in-10 women have negative opinion of Trump

Donald Trump is none too popular with the ladies, and his problem is only getting worse, as his unfavorable ratings in Gallup's daily tracking poll among women continued to rise to new highs throughout the month, according to results released Friday.

Over the course of the last month, 70 percent of women said they have an unfavorable opinion of the Republican presidential front-runner, while only 23 percent said they have a favorable opinion of him. Those figures are in line with various other national polls conducted over the course of March, in which Trump's unfavorable or negative ratings ranged from 67 percent to 74 percent.

Trump's unfavorable rating also rose among men over the course of the last month to 58 percent, with 36 percent holding a positive opinion of him.

The candidate's unfavorables among women have increased since he began his campaign last summer, with 58 percent of women telling Gallup they had a negative opinion of him in July, steadily increasing to 62 percent in September, 64 percent in December and jumping 5 points to 69 percent in February.

Regardless, Trump has the widest gap of support between men and women of any of the candidates left in the race in either party, reflecting a 25-point disparity. Hillary Clinton, on the other side of the spectrum, had the second-largest gender gap, performing a net 17 points better among women than among men.

Among Republican and Republican-leaning women, the findings were more split: 49 percent said they had a favorable view of the businessman, while 46 percent held an unfavorable view. Republican and Republican-leaning men, meanwhile, had a significantly more positive opinion of Trump, at 61 percent to 36 percent. Democrats, both men and women alike, were more unified in their unfavorable views of the candidate.

The results are based on more than 3,600 telephone interviews conducted by Gallup over the course of the last month.