While the 2020 Democratic presidential primary is still months away, women already are making history in next year’s presidential election.

On Feb. 10, Sen. Amy Klobuchar from Minnesota became the sixth woman to announce her candidacy for presidency, joining fellow Sens. Kamala Harris of California, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii and Marianne Williamson are also in the running. 

According to the Center for American Women and Politics, or CAWP, at Rutgers University, there has never been more than two women competing at the same time in the Democratic or Republican primaries, CNBC reports. 

“The value of having multiple women candidates is that they force us to think about women candidates in a way that is not monolithic,” Kelly Dittmar, scholar at CAWP, told CNBC.

This is also is the first time in history that being a woman, particularly for Democrats running in 2020, “is probably more a political asset than a liability,” according to the LA Times. 

Chief among the lessons we’ve learned since the 2016 presidential election campaign season is our public reckoning with women candidates on a national level, writes Vox. There’s a far greater awareness of the sexist overtones of debating a woman candidate’s “likability,” such as measuring how she dresses, the ways she treats her staff, or the sound of her voice. 

However, that hasn’t made this new crop of candidates immune, writes the New York Times.