I wrote a simple python script to plot the number of women in congress and used it in my intro CS class this week. Two reasons:
1. That jump in 2019 is so good!!! This is helping me get over 2016.
2. We shouldn’t have to choose between activism and science.
https://github.com/pleunipennings/PlotNumWomenCongress
Data from wikipedia on Nov 10th (numbers may still change when final races are called).
If anyone has similar data for the number of people of color in congress, I would like to plot that too!
Being A Better Scientist 
It’s a wonderful jump indeed. But still a long road just to get a government with about 25% representation women. Hopefully the next 25% will go more quickly!