To quantify progress towards gender parity in elected and appointed office, RepresentWomen developed the Gender Parity Index (GPI). Each year, a Gender Parity Score and grade is calculated for each of the 50 states and for the United States as a whole. The Gender Parity Score reflects women's recent electoral successes at the local, state, and national levels on a scale of 0 (if no women were elected to any offices) to 100 (if women held all elected offices). The key advantage of the GPI is that it enables comparisons to be made over time and among states.
Report: 2016 Gender Parity Index
Resource:Report
Author:Cynthia Richie Terrell
Author:Sarah John
Author:Kelsey Kober
Author:Michelle Whittaker
Author:Tiffany Monzon
Topic:Gender Parity Index
Topic: Level - Local
Topic: Level - National
Topic: Level - State
Topic: Branch - Legislative
Topic: Branch - Executive