That said, the past 30 years have seen a big spike in the number of women in the House and the Senate, as data from the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University shows.

What’s remarkable, though, is how that growth has been driven mostly by the addition of new Democratic women. Since 1989, the number of Republican women in the Senate increased from one to eight; the number of Democratic women in the Senate grew from one to 17. In the House, the difference was much more stark: The number of Democrats grew from 16 to 89 — and, as CNN’s Ryan Stryuk noted on Twitter on Thursday, the number of Republican women didn’t change at all.

That’s a bit misleading, mind you. In the last Congress, there were 10 more Republican women in the House than there had been 30 years ago. The 2018 midterm elections saw significant erosion in that number.

The result, as we’ve noted before, is a remarkable divergence in what the two parties' House delegations look like.

There are twice as many white male House members who are Republicans as Democrats, despite the latter party’s majority. There are seven times as many women who are Democrats as Republicans, seven times as many nonwhite men who are Democrats and 41 times as many women of color who are Democrats.

Over time, the party split of women on Capitol Hill has increasingly gotten more blue. Eighty years ago, women in the House were about even split between Democrats and Republicans. Now, the percent of female House members who are Republican (12.7 percent) is nearly as low as that figure was in 1973 (12.5 percent), when there were 16 women in the House in total.

While there are a lot more women in the House, there are slightly fewer women in the House as a percentage of all of the members of that body. A quarter of the Senate is made up of women; 23.4 percent of the House is.

The scale there is misleading. This is what the density of women in the House and Senate looks like, relative to the rest of each chamber.

Overall, 23.7 percent of the 535 members of Congress are women, the highest percentage in history and more than twice the density as recently as 22 years ago.

But compared with the population on the whole?