Congress: The 100 U.S. Senators
Female Senators: Past and Present
The current crop of US Senators: 76 men and 24 women
In 2022, 24 women serve as Senators in the 117th Congress of the United States, out of a total of 100 Senators. (This number is down from 25 women in the 115th Congress, as Sen Kamala Harris was elected Vice President.)
24 out of 100 = 24%
16 are Democrats, 8 are Republicans. Three are women of color. (Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada is the first and only Latina in the Senate. Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii and Sen.Tammy Duckworth of Illinois are of AAPI descent.)
Since the Beginning of the Senate, 97 out of every 100 Senators have been men.
Of the 1,994 people who have served in the Senate since the US Congress convened on March 4, 1789, a total of 58 have been women – a total of 2.9 percent.
Since Women’s Suffrage, all Senate Leaders have been men.
In the last 100 years, since the 66th Congress (1919 – 1921), from the 66th Congress through the 117th Congress (52 Congresses since women got the vote in 1920), all the Majority Leaders and Minority Leaders of the US Senate have been men.
Majority Leaders of Senate since 1919:
(0 out of 52 Congresses = 0%)
Minority Leaders of Senate since 1919:
(0 out of 52 Congresses = 0%)
What will it take for women to get into the Power Percentage – 50 out of 100 Senators – of the Senate of the United States?