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This article on KUNM News highlights RepresentWomen's Gender Parity reports and New Mexico's strong performance on GPI. Read the excerpt below:

New Mexico scores high in gender parity report - By Nicole Maxwell, New Mexico Political Report

An organization seeking gender equality in public office ranked New Mexico fourth in its 2023 Gender Parity Index.

RepresentWomen has published gender parity indices since 2013. In the last three indices, New Mexico has scored highly. Gender parity is when 50 percent or more public offices are held by women.

The gender parity scores measure women’s representation across state and local government from 0-100 with 0 meaning there are no women in public offices to 100 if women serve in every public office.

In 2023, New Mexico scored 46.7 points out of 100 which is down from 2022 when the state’s score was 49.2 points. In 2021 the state scored 49 points for gender parity. New Mexico was top ranked those two years.

Part of the drop comes from New Mexico’s delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives coming from an all-woman delegation to having one female representative, Yvette Herrell, losing her re-election bid to Rep. Gabe Vazquez, a Democrat from Las Cruces.

Read the full article here.