We just need to do it,” said Springfield Democrat Crystal Quade, who lost her bid to become Missouri's first female governor.

Just over 2,400 women are serving in state legislatures across the U.S., or about 33% of the total, according to the Center ...

Among the supermajority of Republicans, zero women stood. Voters hadn’t elected a single one to the chamber in November. Now, after more than a decade, the Senate’s Republican caucus is once ...