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102 women serve in the House on the first day of Congress in 2019

What It Looks Like To Have A Record Number Of Women In The House Of Representatives

By: Danielle Kurtzleben | Sean McMinn | Renee Klahr | NPR
Posted on: Friday, January 4, 2019

The 116th Congress has 127 female members — 102 of them in the House. That’s far more than the previous record, but it also is far from gender parity.