If this number is true for many of the cities and county's of the United Sates, one would expect to find the number of women in congress to be similar. Out of the 435 seats in congress, one would expect to find at least 217 of the seats be occupied by women. In the next section of the investigation we will look at the number of women who have seats in congress, and see if in fact the numbers hold true.
Looking back from the 1920`s until present day, the number of women who have seats in congress have grown decade by decade. The biggest jump came in the 1990`s when 92 women were in congress after only 40 had in the 1980`s. In the new century although very young, we see that already 66 women have seats in congress, this by far will surpass the amount of the 90`s being that this decade has just begun. With this being said a problem still exists. As we said earlier, if there would be no gender discrimination one would expect to find at least 217 seats in congress, because women take up half of the working force. But in truth we see that women have a small share of representatives in congress so there does seem to be a problem of gender discrimination in regard to political office. Differences in representation are found in different regions as well. For example, New York and California have 18 and 27 women representatives in congress respectively, while Texas shows only 5 women having seats. One explanation for this is the fact that the South in general has more conservative views, so it comes with no surprise that Texas has the least amount of women in congress. In judging the rate of change in the amount of women who are receiving seats in congress, there seems to be some light at the end of the tunnel. In only the first few years of our new century, 66 women have seats in congress, which shows that the rate for women is growing year by years. It would be at the end of our new decade when women might very well be occupying half of the seats that are available in congress.
