the june elections saw the share of seats held by women skyrocket from in to in a remarkable increase considering that the durango congress brought up the rear of the states for women s representation but now ranks th nevertheless women s statelevel representation still varies from in chiapas to in morelos where does the critical mass for women s political representation come from borrowed from nuclear physics where it indicates the quantity of plutonium necessary to produce a nuclear explosion the concept was first applied to gender in the s by an american scholar rosabeth moss kanter kanter