United States of America - House of Representatives


In the 113th Congress (2013), 18.59% of representatives were women (81.5 out of 438.44)


This graph shows the respective contributions to overall gender representation of the bottom three and top three parties. Parties with a high proportion of women may still rank as having low contributions because of low total numbers of representatives.

0% represents the hypothetical gender balance of the chamber without each party in turn (see methodology) rather than 50/50.


The party that has the highest positive influential on the gender balance is Democrat.

30.39% of this party's representatives are women. These 62.48 women account for 76.66% of all women elected in this period.

Including this party raises the representation of women by 10.42%.


The party that has the highest negative influential on the gender balance is Republican.

8.17% of this party's representatives are women. These 19.02 women account for 23.34% of all women elected in this period.

Including this party lowers the representation of women by -11.8%.


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