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We Mapped Out the Road to Gender Parity in the House of Representatives

Exploring the last 100 years of women in politics through data.

Jeanette Rankin was the first woman elected to the House of Representatives on November 7, 1916. Since then, 289 different women have represented their constituents in the House, bringing the House to 19% women. In this article, we follow their stories through data and identify their contributions with the help of machine learning.

In this article, we focus only on the House of Representatives.

Let's start by introducing the visualization format. Each gray bar represents a presidential term.

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