With all but one race for the House of Representatives finally determined, the numbers are in and they are grim for Republicans: a loss of either 39 or 40 seats, pending the result of one last contest in California. But beneath that figure is one that ought to terrify Republicans even more, one that suggests a crisis-level problem in the party.

Out of the 200 House Republicans who will be sworn into the 116th Congress, only 13 will be women. In the Senate, the picture is only slightly less grim, with seven women out of the 53 Republicans in that chamber. Earlier this year, I wrote about the potential for the Republican Party to end “the Year of the Woman 2.0” with fewer women in Congress than it started with, and sure enough, the ranks of Republican women in the House have been nearly cut in half.