Even as Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton attempts to shatter what she has called “the highest, hardest glass ceiling,” women in the U.S. remain significantly underrepresented at all levels of elected office. Although women account for half of the population, only one in five members of Congress is female.
See details at members-of-congress.insidegov.com.
Also see GovTrack.us, a tool by Civic Impulse LLC, is one of the world’s most visited government transparency websites. The site helps ordinary citizens find and track bills in the U.S. Congress and understand their representatives’ legislative record. GovTrack brings together the status of U.S. federal legislation, voting records, congressional district maps, and more. Most of the information is assembled in an automated way by scanning federal government websites, such as THOMAS.
