More than 90% of the incumbents in the US House, who run for reelection, win.  The political process must be monitored to identify open seats and to open up more seats to challengers.

• Monitor the seats that are likely to open up or be vulnerable to challengers.  Ensure there are viable women candidates to run for those seats.

• In states with term limits, ensure women understand the need to progress to higher office. Term limits have been implemented in some state legislatures, but so far there has been little impact on the number of women in those legislatures. 

• Another approach to open more opportunities might be a roster of 'at large' candidates.  A state like Pennsylvania which has 19 representatives in the US House, might have 14 districts with head-to-head races identical to today,  However, there might be 5 'at large' candidates selected from a roster of 10 or more candidates where parties would be required to put forth women candidates for at least 40% of the roster.

• Public dialog on the election process can have the added benefit of raising awareness, increasing interest, and decreasing apathy among women voters.

• Make it easier to vote.  The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 allowed citizens, 18 years or older, to register to vote when they applied for or renewed their driver licenses.  This increased the percentage of people registered to vote, but it did not increase the number of voters.  States need to make it easier to vote with approaches such as: early voting on the Saturday before election day, mail-in voting, same day registration, and extended hours on election day.