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Male U.S. representatives with daughters are more likely to vote in favor of abortion rights and "more liberally on a range of women's issues" than male representatives without daughters, according to a working paper published this month in the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Washington Post reports. Ebonya Washington of Yale University examined the 105th Congress members' familial compositions and the National Organization for Women's ratings of its male members. The ratings, which are based on members' votes on 20 women's issues, range from zero -- which means they consistently vote against NOW's position -- to 100 -- which...