However, I’m not sure that the translation you point out is preferable. For whether the connotation of congress to which you refer is the reproductive or the 9% approval one, both are sharp as needles in context. And assemblywoman has mechanical connotations as well. Try to imagine a state driven by a LEGO philosophy.

The funny thing that I noticed was that Aristophanes states that such a totalitarian socialist state was brought into being by a woman who usurped the man’s role as lawmaker. Just to defend myself against charges of misogyny, I’m not claiming this as my own POV, but as the message of the play. To carry it further, does the Nanny State ring any bells? It may be that the American experience reinforces the message of the play.

Aristophanes’ play presents a view that is blind to the effects of slavery, of course, except as a means of freeing slaveowners from work. Some dark humor, from a modern perspective, in Praxagora’s proposal to pool all the women for any man to “use” in that she’s not all that far from the morality of modern soi disant feministas who seek to simply make all women willing to be freer with sex than a street walker. Plus ça change and all that, eh?

(BTW, by “The Congresswomen” you mean, “Ἐκκλησιάζουσαι” don’t you? “congresswomen” might be an acceptable translation, but given the connotation we have for the word “congress” today, “Assemblywomen” might be better, closer to the play in fact.)