23 women having been elected to the Senate and more than a hundred women for the House of Representatives, nearly a quarter of the 116th United States Congress will be made up of women.

“Are women fired up? That is putting it mildly,” said political activist Jen Cox. “It’s historic. It’s our turn in having a say in changing the face of politics.”

The number of women who ran for Congress this year was double that from last time. A vast majority of them, interestingly, were Democrats.

“It’s obviously in response to the 2016 election of Donald Trump,” said GOP consultant Christine Matthews, “that has activated and energized a lot of women particularly on the Democratic side.”

While the number of women elected to Congress this year was truly record-breaking, it probably wouldn’t satisfy Jeannette Rankin, the first women to be elected to the House of Representatives back in 1916, who said:

“We [women] are half the people; we should be half the congress.”