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As of October 3, 2023, there are 25 women (15 Democrats, 9 Republicans, and 1 Independent) serving as U.S. senators. Additionally, Kamala Harris as vice president serves as President of the Senate . Nancy Kassebaum is currently the oldest living former female member of the Senate at the age 91.
Women Senators To date, 60 women have served in the United States Senate, with 25 serving at this time (indicated in bold print below). Visit Women of the Senate to learn more about the impact of women on the Senate.
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Jan 3, 2023 · Across both chambers, there are 109 Democratic women and 44 Republican women in the new Congress. Women account for 43% of House Democrats and 31% of Senate Democrats, compared with 16% of House Republicans and 18% of Senate Republicans.
Jan 12, 2015 · Women in the U.S. Senate, 1965-2023. % of U.S. senators who are women. 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 Starting date of congressional term. Note: Percentages are the share of women senators at the outset of each term of Congress.
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At the start of the 118th Congress in 2023, there were 25 women serving in the U.S. Senate, just shy of the record 26 women senators sworn in on the first day of the previous Congress. (The count for the previous Congress includes Vice President Kamala Harris and former Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler. Both were sworn in on the first day and left the S...
On the first day of the 118th Congress, 124 women were voting members in the House of Representatives, making up 28.5% of the chamber’s voting membership. In addition, four women serve as nonvoting delegates to Congress, representing American Samoa, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Of the women voting representativ...
Women make up 29.9% of state senate seats and 33.7% of state house or assembly seats. Three women serve as state senate president, and another 13 as senate presidents pro tempore. An additional eight are speakers of state houses. In 2019, Nevada became the first state with a majority-women state legislature. Women currently hold a 62% majority of t...
To date, 49 women have served as governors in 32 states. In 2023, eight Democratic and four Republican women serve as governors. Wyoming Democrat Nellie Tayloe Ross was the first woman governor. She assumed office by a special election in 1924 to succeed her deceased husband. Ella Grasso, a Connecticut Democrat, was the first woman governor elected...
President Joe Biden’s Cabinet includes 12 women out of the 25 positions he has designated as Cabinet or Cabinet-level. That is the highest share of women in history, at 48%. Former President Bill Clinton’s second-term Cabinet had the second-highest share of women, at 41%. Under Biden, three of the top Cabinet posts – the vice president, secretary o...
The share of women CEOs of Fortune 500 companies reached an all-time high of 10.6% in 2023, with 53 women heading major firms. Katharine Graham of The Washington Post Co. was the first woman CEO to make the Fortune 500 list, in 1972.
The share of women sitting on the boards of Fortune 500 companies has been gradually increasing for decades, from 9.6% in 1995 to 30.4% in 2022.
In 2022, 32.8% of university presidents were women, more than triple the share in 1986. Frances Elizabeth Willard became the first woman college president in 1871, heading the Evanston College for Ladies in Illinois, which later merged with Northwestern University. In 1974, Lorene L. Rogers was the first woman to lead a major research university (U...
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As of March 2023, here are the numbers: 25 women senators (1 more than 117th Congress) 125 women in the House (2 more than 117th Congress) 150 total. Compare that to 147 total women in the 117th Congress and 132 in the 116th Congress, and there’s a clear upward trend.
Nov 3, 2023 · U.S. women in the Senate 1979 -2023, by party. Published by Statista Research Department , Nov 3, 2023. There are 100 Senators that serve in the United States Senate at any given time - two from...
