What an utterly fascinating question....

Could it be that the Tories perhaps represent more of the traditional familial-side values that simply appeal to British Women?

I don't mean anything as silly as "Kinder, Kuche, Kirche" obviously, but perhaps there is something more...

Reassuring about the Conservatives that appeals to British Women? Or is it perhaps the way in which, perhaps, women are more traditionally minded still in the UK in general? A majority aren't still high-powered buisnesswomen and thus, simply don't have the same will or wish to have the "equality" afforded to them via Labour?

I'm personally not entirely sure, but I strongly suspect a lot of these Conservative Voting women will be mothers. Mothers who will want decent upbringing and discipline for their children outside of their steely gaze, as well as safer streets in general so their kids are safe.

There's also the distinct possibility that they vote Tory simply because they're the only party so far to have had a female leader, just like some Floridia women were swinging in behind Palin simply because she was a female candidate.

Interesting. How do they know this, is it from polling? My guess would be that it's not that women are more conservative, but that potential Labour voting women are maybe less likely to vote. I have no evidence to back this up, but I could well imagine that in many areas the turnout amongst working class women would be very low.

I think you have to be careful before really trusting the sort of surveys that this sort of thing tends to be based on as fact; I've seen several sets of figures for different elections in the U.K on this subject that have shown different patterns. Though as the consistent feature is that there is no gender gap of the sort seen in the United States, asking why things are different in Britain is still a valid question. The obvious answer is that class has much more of an influence on voting habits in Britain than in America (to risk understatement actually), but there's probably more to it than that. French voting patterns are not as class-polarised as British ones, and yet (if we believe the surveys) the gender gap in second round of the last Presidential election there was tiny (not true of the first round, interestingly enough; Royal appears to have polled noticably better with women than men in the first round, but not the second. Interestingly, Le Pen certainly did a lot better with men than women and it's very likely that that minority of Le Pen's vote that voted for Royal in the second round was heavily male. And were probably voting for the Commies until the mid '80's).