Jennifer Steinhauer explores our research on electability in the New York Times.
While the share of elected seats in local, state and federal office held by women barely increased between 2015 and 2017, those rates soared in 2018, the report [from the Reflective Democracy Campaign] found. The increase was especially stark at the congressional level. The number of women in Congress — currently 127 — grew 21 percent between 2017 and 2019.
