WOMEN U.S. RECORDS

© Timothy A. Clary, AFP | Tahirah Amatul-Wadud, who is running in the Democratic primary for US Congress
 in Massachusetts’ First District, goes on a door-knocking and voter registration drive in Chicopee, Massachusetts,
 July 21, 2018.

RECORD number of women seeking seats in US Congress.

 A record number of women are running for the US Congress in November, a surge that follows a year marked by the hashMeToo movement and defiance of President Donald Trump.

After another round of  primary voting in several states on Tuesday, 183 women will fight for a seat in the House of Representatives in November's mid-term election.

''It's official,'' the Center for American Women and Politics [CWAP] said after the voting in Kansas, Michigan, and Missouri.

''We've broken the record, at least 11 women are running for state governor, the advocacy group said on Twitter. Until now that number had peaked at  10, in 1994.

In June, women also set a record for how many are running for the Senate. It is 42 - 24 Democrats and 18 Republicans . The previous record was 40, set in 2016, said the  CAWP.

Several women candidates in races that they they have a good chance of winning are from minorities with little or no representation in Congress.

They include Rashida Tlaib, who won a Democratic primary Tuesday in Michigan and is now posed to become the first Muslim woman elected to Congress.

Several native American women are also running for seats. ''A native American woman has never been elected to the  US Congress,'' CAWP said.

The strong number of  female candidates comes midway through the term of Trump, whose inauguration in January 2017 was met met the next day with a huge march in Washington in favor of  women's rights. [Agencies].