{"id":200255,"date":"2025-02-21T13:51:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T18:51:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-05-15T08:25:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:25:30","slug":"women-account-for-28-of-lawmakers-in-the-119th-congress-unchanged-from-the-last-congress","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2025\/02\/21\/women-account-for-28-of-lawmakers-in-the-119th-congress-unchanged-from-the-last-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Women account for 28% of lawmakers in the 119th Congress \u2013 unchanged from the last Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-640-wide\"><img data-dominant-color=\"816f5f\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #816f5f;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/02\/SR_25.02.21_women-in-congress_feature.png?resize=480,270 480w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/02\/SR_25.02.21_women-in-congress_feature.png?resize=782,440 782w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/02\/SR_25.02.21_women-in-congress_feature.png?resize=960,540 960w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/02\/SR_25.02.21_women-in-congress_feature.png?resize=1200,675 1200w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/02\/SR_25.02.21_women-in-congress_feature.png?resize=1280,720 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/02\/SR_25.02.21_women-in-congress_feature.png?w=640\" alt=\"From left: Democratic Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware and Republican Rep. Julie Fedorchak of North Dakota. They are the first women to represent their states in their respective chambers of Congress. (Bill Clark\/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images)\" class=\"wp-image-200310 not-transparent\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">From left: Democratic Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware and Republican Rep. Julie Fedorchak of North Dakota. They are the first women to represent their states in their respective chambers of Congress. (Bill Clark\/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Women make up 28% of voting members in the 119th Congress \u2013 on par with their share in the last Congress, but a considerable increase from where things stood even 10 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>As of the new Congress\u2019 first day in session, a total of 150 senators and representatives were women.<\/strong> That\u2019s only one more than the 149 seated at the beginning of the previous Congress, but it represents a 44% increase from a decade ago. At the beginning of the 114th Congress of 2015-17, 104 voting members were women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This year\u2019s total is still slightly below the record number of women <em>ever<\/em> to serve in Congress at once, <a href=\"https:\/\/cawp.rutgers.edu\/news-media\/press-releases\/number-women-serving-congress-will-not-meet-record-levels\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">which is 152<\/span><\/a>, set following a series of special elections in 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All told, women make up a smaller share of the federal legislature than of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/data\/tables\/time-series\/demo\/popest\/2020s-national-detail.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">overall U.S. population<\/span><\/a> ages 25 and older (28% vs. 51%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Note: This analysis reflects the 533 voting members of the 119th Congress seated as of Jan. 3, 2025. It excludes members seated later, notably Florida <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldtribune.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2025\/01\/22\/ashley-moody-senator-former-florida-attorney-general-replaces-marco-rubio\/77872645007\/\">Sen. Ashley Moody<\/a>, a Republican appointee sworn in on Jan. 21.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-style-plus-icon has-border-color has-ui-gray-light-border-color has-ui-beige-very-light-background-color has-background has-sans-serif-font-family is-layout-flow wp-container-core-details-is-layout-61b01db2 wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\" style=\"border-width:1px;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);font-size:clamp(0.875em, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 0.2em) * 0.009), 0.88em);\"><summary>How we did this<\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This analysis builds on earlier Pew Research Center studies measuring the gender distribution of Congress. Historical data comes from the <a href=\"https:\/\/bioguide.congress.gov\/\">Biographical Directory of the United States Congress<\/a>, the U.S. House of Representatives <a href=\"https:\/\/history.house.gov\/\">Office of the Historian<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/crsreports.congress.gov\/\">Congressional Research Service<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/info.cq.com\/\">CQ Roll Call<\/a>. Election information comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Main_Page\">Ballotpedia<\/a> and national media reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For consistency with other write-ups in our \u201cChanging Face of Congress\u201d series, this analysis reflects the 533 voting members of Congress seated as of Jan. 3, 2025. It does not include the vacant Florida House seat previously held by former Rep. Matt Gaetz; the West Virginia Senate seat assumed by Jim Justice on Jan. 14; or the Florida Senate seat assumed by Ashley Moody on Jan. 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The analysis also excludes the six nonvoting House members representing the U.S. territories and District of Columbia, <a href=\"https:\/\/cawpdata.rutgers.edu\/women-elected-officials\/position?position%5B%5D=US+Delegate&amp;current=1&amp;items_per_page=50\">four of whom are women<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Independent members of Congress are counted with the party they caucus with. New members of Congress include 2023 and 2024 special election winners who stood for their first regular <em>general <\/em>election in November 2024.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-640-wide is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?attachment_id=200416\"><img data-dominant-color=\"f3f2f2\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/02\/SR_25.02.21_women-in-congress_1.png?resize=480,1134 480w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/02\/SR_25.02.21_women-in-congress_1.png?resize=782,1847 782w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/02\/SR_25.02.21_women-in-congress_1.png?resize=840,1984 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" height=\"1512\" width=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/02\/SR_25.02.21_women-in-congress_1.png?w=640\" alt=\"A stacked bar chart showing that women make up more than a quarter of the 119th\nU.S. Congress' membership.\" class=\"wp-image-200416 not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #f3f2f2; width:420px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the beginning of the current Congress, there were<strong> 125 women in the House (29% of all representatives) and 25 in the Senate (25% of all senators). <\/strong>Women make up the same share of each chamber as they did at the start of the last Congress, although their number dropped by one in the House. There were 124 women representatives and 25 women senators at the beginning of the 118th Congress. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most incumbent women lawmakers who sought reelection in 2024 \u2013 104 of 110 representatives and all nine senators \u2013 kept their seats. The returning members include the longest-serving woman in congressional history: Ohio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/11\/20\/rep-marcy-kaptur-defeats-derek-merrin-in-close-ohio-9th-district-race\/75571775007\/\">Rep. Marcy Kaptur<\/a>, now in her 42nd year in the House since arriving in 1983.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(For the purpose of this analysis, we are counting special election winners who stood for their first regular <em>general <\/em>election in 2024 as new to Congress, not reelected incumbents. There were three such women who ran to keep their House seats in 2024; all three were successful.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"two-dozen-women-lawmakers-are-new-to-congress\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Two dozen women lawmakers are new to Congress<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>On the first day of the 119th Congress, three women senators and 21 women representatives were newly seated, <\/strong>including three current members who were selected via special elections in 2023 or 2024. All three senators and 18 representatives are Democrats; three representatives are Republicans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of these members represent notable firsts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delawareonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/11\/05\/election-results-delaware-voters-elect-lisa-blunt-rochester-us-senate\/75913705007\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester<\/span><\/a> is the first woman and first Black person to represent Delaware in the Senate. She and newly elected <a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/maryland-election\/2024\/11\/maryland-races-could-reshape-us-politics\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Sen. Angela Alsobrooks<\/span><\/a> of Maryland are the first two Black women to serve in the Senate at the same time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/northdakotamonitor.com\/2024\/11\/05\/fedorchak-to-represent-north-dakota-in-us-house\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Rep. Julie Fedorchak<\/span><\/a> is the first woman to represent North Dakota in the House.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Democratic <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2025\/01\/30\/119th-congress-lgbtq-members-include-first-trans-representative\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Rep. Sarah McBride<\/span><\/a> of Delaware is the first transgender member of Congress.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2024\/11\/01\/17-states-havent-had-a-female-us-senator-and-18-havent-had-a-woman-governor\/\">Sixteen states<\/a> have <em>never<\/em> elected a woman to the Senate, and just one \u2013 Mississippi \u2013 has never had a woman representative in the House. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/11\/08\/1134352130\/vermont-balint-election-day-results-2022\">But as of 2022<\/a>, all 50 states have sent at least one woman to <em>either<\/em> the Senate or the House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"democratic-women-far-outnumber-gop-women-in-congress\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Democratic women far outnumber GOP women in Congress<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The 119th Congress opened with 110 Democratic women and 40 Republican women across both chambers.<\/strong> Women make up 42% of congressional Democrats and 15% of congressional Republicans, very similar to where things stood at the start of the last Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looking at each chamber individually, women now account for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>44% of Democrats and 14% of Republicans in the House<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>34% of Democrats and 17% of Republicans in the Senate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Women\u2019s share of Congress hasn\u2019t always tilted so Democratic. Until the Great Depression, most of the dozen women who had been elected to the House were Republicans. And for several decades afterward, women\u2019s representation in that chamber was fairly evenly divided between the parties. But the gap widened in the 1970s and has persisted, despite a temporary narrowing during the 1980s.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the early 1990s, the vast majority of women in Congress belonged to the Democratic Party. And since 1992 \u2013 known as the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/artandhistory\/history\/minute\/year_of_the_woman.htm\">Year of the Woman<\/a>\u201d following record gains for women\u2019s representation in Congress \u2013 68% of women in the House have been Democrats, as have 67% of women in the Senate. (This count includes one independent senator who caucused with Democrats: former Arizona <a href=\"https:\/\/bioguide.congress.gov\/search\/bio\/S001191\">Sen. Kyrsten Sinema<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"the-history-of-women-in-congress\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The history of women in Congress<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-640-wide is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?attachment_id=200418\"><img data-dominant-color=\"d0cdcc\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"2172\"  sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/02\/SR_25.02.21_women-in-congress_2.png?resize=480,1682 480w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/02\/SR_25.02.21_women-in-congress_2.png?resize=620,2172 620w\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/02\/SR_25.02.21_women-in-congress_2.png?w=620\" alt=\"An image showing milestones for women in U.S. Congress.\" class=\"wp-image-200418 not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #d0cdcc; width:310px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Women have been in Congress for more than a century. Montana Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/history.house.gov\/People\/Listing\/R\/RANKIN,-Jeannette-(R000055)\/\">Jeannette Rankin<\/a> was the first, elected to a newly created House seat in 1916, two years after her state gave women the right to vote. In 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified, granting voting rights to women across the nation. That year, <a href=\"https:\/\/history.house.gov\/People\/Detail\/20480\">Alice Mary Robertson<\/a> of Oklahoma became the first woman to defeat an incumbent congressman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first woman in the Senate was <a href=\"https:\/\/history.house.gov\/People\/Listing\/F\/FELTON,-Rebecca-Latimer-(F000069)\/\">Rebecca Latimer Felton<\/a> in 1922. The Georgia Democrat and suffragist was sworn in to a vacant seat when the 67th Congress was unexpectedly called back into session; her appointment was largely symbolic, and she served for just a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Women only began serving in more substantial numbers in the past few decades. As of Jan. 3, 2025, more than three-quarters of the women ever to serve in the House (300 of 396) or the Senate (48 of 63) were elected or appointed in 1992 or later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"widow-s-succession-in-congress\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018Widow\u2019s succession\u2019 in Congress<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well into the 1970s, one of the most common ways for a woman to enter Congress was by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/history.house.gov\/Exhibitions-and-Publications\/WIC\/Historical-Data\/Familial-Connections-of-Women-Members-of-Congress\/\">succeeding her deceased husband<\/a> or father, either by election or appointment. Of the 90 women who served in the House between 1916 and 1980, 34 were elected to their husband\u2019s seat or, if he died before Election Day, named as his replacement on the ballot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though \u201cwidow\u2019s succession\u201d is far less common in the 21st century, it\u2019s happened once in the Senate and twice in the House since 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two current members of the House succeeded their late spouses: Democrat Doris Matsui of California, who has held office since 2005, and Republican Julia Letlow of Louisiana, who\u2019s held office since 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-640-wide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?attachment_id=200417\"><img data-dominant-color=\"f1f2f0\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #f1f2f0;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/02\/SR_25.02.21_women-in-congress_3.png?resize=480,231 480w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/02\/SR_25.02.21_women-in-congress_3.png?resize=782,376 782w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/02\/SR_25.02.21_women-in-congress_3.png?resize=960,462 960w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/02\/SR_25.02.21_women-in-congress_3.png?resize=1200,578 1200w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/02\/SR_25.02.21_women-in-congress_3.png?resize=1280,616 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" height=\"308\" width=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/02\/SR_25.02.21_women-in-congress_3.png?w=640\" alt=\"A timeline showing that 'Widow's succession' is less common in U.S. Congress than it used to be.\" class=\"wp-image-200417 not-transparent\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>CORRECTION (May 15, 2026):<\/em>\u00a0<em>This post has been updated to correct the spelling of Rep. 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