In 1992, 60 women were elected to Congress, and liberals called it the “Year of the Woman.” In 2014, 100 women are elected to congress, and liberals call it “really incremental gains.”

Malcolm A. Kline at Accuracy in Academia has the story:

Liberals Can’t Believe their Eyes: More Women in Congress after GOP Wave

In the wake of the 2014 election, a record number of women have been elected to Congress but academics question their historical significance. “These victories undoubtedly represent important milestones for women’s representation,” Jennifer Lawless, head of American University’s Institute on Women and Politics, told Time magazine’s Jay Newton Small. “But upon closer inspection, the 2014 midterm elections hardly amounted to a ‘Year of the Woman.’”

“These are really incremental gains,” Kelly Ditmar, a scholar at Rutgers University’s Center for American Women and Politics, said to Small. “While we’re excited to welcome new women to Congress, the numbers aren’t increasing in any significant pace forward.”

“The trend is almost stagnating.”

“Last night was a landmark for women,” Emily Zanotti wrote on the American Spectator blog the day after the election. “More women will serve in this next Congress than have ever before. And of those women, we can count the youngest female to ever be elected to national office, Republican Elise Stefanik, who took the open seat in New York’s 21st, and the first black Republican Congresswoman, Mia Love, elected in Utah.”