Gender parity among elected officials does not guarantee parity in political power, but recognizing partisan differences in women’s representation is important to understanding efforts to advance equality politics.
of all state legislators, they are 48% of Democrats and 20% of Republicans. In fact, Democratic women are at or above parity with Democratic men in 26 state legislatures.
In contrast, Republican women fall short of parity with Republican men in all states, holding one-third or less of Republican seats in 47 state legislatures. This partisan divide in gender representation helps to explain why women have ever achieved parity with men across parties in only two state legislatures nationwide .
The relationship between political representation and political power is influenced by party control, with the potential effects of parity among Democrats tempered in state legislative chambers where Republicans hold the majority. But parity among Democrats is not constrained to Republican-majority chambers. Women are 50% or more of Democrats in 60% of Democratic-controlled and 62% of Republican-controlled state houses. Across all Democratic-majority state houses, women hold 52.
There is no simple explanation for the partisan disparity in women’s political representation, but there are multiple factors that likely contribute to it. First, the support infrastructure for women—fromto gender-specific programs to recruit and train women to run—is more robust among Democrats than among Republicans.
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