Women Are Underrepresented at Every Level of US Politics. The Midterms May Bend That.

US voters are choosing members of Congress and state governors, with the midterms falling on November 3. Deutsche Welle reports that women remain underrepresented at all levels of American politics — and that they may win some historic victories this cycle. The two halves of that sentence exist in different registers: the underrepresentation is the baseline, and the possible milestones are the part still to be settled at the ballot box.