Of the 21 GOP-led House committees, only one is headed by a woman … and it sucks

Rep. Candice Miller (R-MI) will once again service as the GOP's lone female committee chair.

Rep. Candice Miller (R-MI) will once again service as the GOP's lone female committee chair.

Rep. Candice Miller (R-MI) has the honor of being the sole woman to head a House committee for the GOP, reports Bloomberg. Surely they would have given Miller a high-profile committee given their wish to score political points with female voters who usually favor Democrats at the ballot box:

Her domain? House Administration, a panel known more for tending to granular details -- overseeing federal elections, parking lots and cafeterias -- than grabbing headlines.

“I don’t want to diminish her position but it’s not Ways and Means, it’s not the Budget Committee,” said Debbie Walsh, head of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University in New Jersey. “It’s much more administrative.”

Oh, how a woman's work is never done.

Perhaps the lack of GOP leadership roles for women has to do with the fact that just 22 of 246 House Republicans are female, whereas 65 of 188 House Democrats are female. Overall, a record 107 women are serving in the 114th Congress, 79 Democrats and 28 Republicans.