When the Trump administration announced it was giving the green light to the design for a female crash test dummy, it was welcome news to the advocates who have long fought for better female representation in vehicle safety.

This dummy has been on a long journey. And she's not at the end of the road yet.

Vehicle safety tests in the U.S. use crash test dummies based on a male body. Advocates say it's no coincidence that women are more likely to suffer injuries in car crashes than men, even if you control for the severity of the crash and the size of the vehicle.

Calls for an accurate female crash test dummy date back decades. Consumer Reports has traced them back to 1980 .

In the early 2000s, regulators added a small "female" dummy to tests — but it was just a scaled-down vers

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