Vulnerable Incumbents Will Determine Next Cohort of House Women

A small number of competitive races will determine whether women increase their share of representation in the 119th Congress.

Kelly Dittmar, director of research for the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, identified 11 female House incumbents in hard-to-call contests against male challengers and another 11 nonincumbent female House candidates in close races for seats now held by men.

“The fate of these women will be really important to determine where we land after November, making again the prediction of up, down, or stasis quite hard,” Dittmar said at a Tuesday briefing.

The list of at-risk House ...