After #Election2018 + seeing all of these women winning, you think, ‘fantastic.’ Then you realize we’re NOW making up 22 percent of Congress and 28 percent of CA state leg … and THEN you think, ‘wow, we have a ways to go.’ A researcher told me that — If nothing changes — “we’re looking at the end of our lifetimes before women reach parity in the state Legislature at this pace.” The story.