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Report: International Women's Representation

July 24, 2019

Progress toward gender parity in elected office in the United States has been slow, especially in comparison to other nations. Most countries that rank above the United States for women's political representation have adopted...

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Report: 2019 Gender Parity Index

June 25, 2019

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...

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Report: Why Rules and Systems Matter Lessons from Around the World

December 21, 2018

Women won a record number of races in the November 2018 midterm elections and now hold 102 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. According to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, which tracks women's representation in...

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Report: 2018 Gender Parity Index

February 23, 2018

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...

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Report: 2017 Gender Parity Index

April 10, 2017

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...

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Report: Individual and PAC Giving to Women Candidates

November 07, 2016

The Center for Responsive Politics (CRP), Common Cause, and Representation2020 (RepresentWomen) have teamed up to explore political giving to congressional candidates from the female candidate's perspective. This collaborative project is designed to create greater...

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Report: 2016 Gender Parity Index

October 14, 2016

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...

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Released: August 2016

In 2016, RepresentWomen (then known as Representation 2020) studied the impact of single-winner ranked choice voting in the California Bay Area (Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco, and San Leandro), a "hotbed of RCV implementation," where over 100 ranked choice elections had taken place between 2004 and 2014 to decide local leadership in 53 offices. The study found that more women (42%) and people of color (60%) ran in and won these elections since ranked choice voting was introduced. By the start of 2016, women held 59% and people of color held 60% of these offices.

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Report: 2015 Gender Parity Index

August 21, 2015

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...

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Report: 2013/2014 Gender Parity Index

October 14, 2013

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...

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