Chapter 7 addresses a consequence of the party fit argument for contemporary patterns of female representation. At the national legislative level, the United States is ranked 84th worldwide, with women comprising 19 percent of the House of Representatives. Less attention, however, has been paid to the growing partisan gap among women in Congress: the number of Democratic women has increased dramatically since the 1980s while the number of Republican women has stagnated. Women now make up one-third of the Democratic Party but only 9 percent of the GOP. The chapter illustrates how these same dynamics of candidate entry and exit have shaped the partisan gap among women in office. First, conservative men outnumber conservative women in state legislative office more than five to one, and these Republicans are the most likely to seek higher office. Furthermore, the Republican women in Congress in the 1980s and 1990s were in the moderate wing of the party, and they were disproportionately affected by the rightward shift of the GOP. The hollowing out of the political center has hindered the advancement of Republican women, and it has stalled women’s representation more generally.