The 116th Congress has more women and people of color than ever – but there's still room to improve
- Written by Richie Zweigenhaft, Professor of Psychology, Guilford College
Women and people of color made substantial gains in the 2018 midterm elections toward diversifying the House and the Senate.
For the past three and a half decades, my co-author, G. William Domhoff, and I have been monitoring diversity in what sociologist C. Wright Mills called “the power elite” – those in the most influential...