GOP Women Skipped Speaker’s Race as Male Colleagues Jumped In

It seemed like just about every other House Republican showed interest in the speaker’s job this month, but among the 14 actual contenders, not one of the chamber’s 33 GOP women entered the race.

Not even Elise Stefanik, the New Yorker who serves as chair of the House Republican Conference, the highest ranking woman in the House GOP, who has made it a priority to raise money for her peers running for Congress. Stefanik’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

Women committee chairs also declined to put their names into the mix.

“It’s something that moved ...