Republican Women Face Higher Hurdles to Office

“The newly-inaugurated 114th Congress may have the most women of any in history, but the vast majority of gains have been made by Democrats. A new study from Political Parity, a non-partisan research group seeking gender parity in politics, blames the imbalance on the Republican primary process, which the report claims creates “higher hurdles” for female candidates than Democratic primaries do for liberal women,” Politico reports.