page_title: Women in the United States House of Representatives
section_title: Number of women in the United States House of Representatives and Senate by Congress
hierarchical_section_title: Women in the United States House of Representatives / Number of women / Number of women in the United States House of Representatives and Senate by Congress
caption_attribution_description: House Democratic Women of the 113th Congress
context_page_description: Women have served in the United States House of Representatives since the 1917 entrance of Jeannette Rankin from Montana, a member of the Republican Party. Three hundred twenty-five women have since served as U.S. Representatives. As of August 25, 2020, there are 100 women in the U.S. House of Representatives, making women 23.2% of the total of U.S. Representatives. Of the 325 women who have served in the US House, 222 have been Democrats, and 103 have been Republicans, one of whom was at first politically independent. One woman has served in the highest office of the House, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi from California, a member of the Democratic Party.
  Women have been elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from 46 of the 50 states. The states that have not elected a woman to the U.S. House of Representatives are Alaska, Mississippi, North Dakota, and Vermont—though Alaska, Mississippi, and North Dakota have elected women to the United States Senate. Women have also been sent to congress from 5 of the 6 territories of the United States; the only Territory that has not sent a woman to the U.S. House of Representatives is the Northern Mariana Islands.
context_section_description: Number of women in the United States Congress (1917–2021):
caption: Women U.S. Representatives of the 113th Congress
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