The Legislature is a workplace where more than a third of members are attorneys, so most lawmakers have postgraduate degrees. Just 33% of adult Texans have bachelor’s degrees or higher.
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The Legislature that convened Tuesday for its 2023 session is still mostly white and male. Seventy percent of lawmakers are men. At least 54% of lawmakers are white and nearly half are white men. But the incoming Legislature also has the highest number of women lawmakers in at least the last five sessions.
This year, women lawmakers took 54 of the 181 seats at the Capitol. There are twice as many Democratic women lawmakers as Republican. However, unlike in previous legislative sessions, there are far moreThe Legislature is still far less diverse than Texas as a whole If the composition of the Legislature were aligned with the state’s demographics, there would be close to an equal number of Hispanic and non-Hispanic white lawmakers. Instead, there are still more than twice as many white legislators as Hispanic legislators. Hispanic Texans make up 40% of the population but hold just 25% of seats in the Legislature.
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