• 26.5% of Wisconsin state legislators are women.
• Wisconsin was the 41st state to elect a woman representative to the U.S. Congress.
• The United States ranks 59th in terms of percentage of women elected to national parliaments according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union. Women occupy only 14.3% of parliamentary seats around the world.

Help America Vote Act in Wisconsin; LWV Represented on State Elections Board Review Committee (March 2003)