<story><title>Ways the world improved in 2018</title><url>https://qz.com/1506764/ways-the-world-improved-in-2018-in-charts/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MuffinFlavored</author><text>Why, in theory, isn&amp;#x27;t Congress made up of 50% women + 50% men?</text></item><item><author>lclarkmichalek</author><text>Wow, I didn&amp;#x27;t know the gender gap in primary and secondary education had closed so much. That&amp;#x27;s incredible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacobolus</author><text>Among Democrats, women are now up to about 40% in Congress. I could easily imagine that passing 50% in another decade or two as older members retire.&lt;p&gt;But &amp;lt;10% on the GOP side.&lt;p&gt;The short answer is: there is still a significant part of the electorate which prefers to have male representatives, and various networks and institutional structures in some parties which give men an advantage.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ways the world improved in 2018</title><url>https://qz.com/1506764/ways-the-world-improved-in-2018-in-charts/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MuffinFlavored</author><text>Why, in theory, isn&amp;#x27;t Congress made up of 50% women + 50% men?</text></item><item><author>lclarkmichalek</author><text>Wow, I didn&amp;#x27;t know the gender gap in primary and secondary education had closed so much. That&amp;#x27;s incredible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xvedejas</author><text>Part of the answer might lie in seeing statistics for what percentage of congressional candidates have been women, over time.</text></comment>