Trend Analysis - Appointments to State Level Policy Positions

Welcome to The Center for Women in Government: "Completing the Public Record: Appointed Policy Makers in State Government: Trend Analysis 1997, 1998, 1999
Headlines in newspapers across the country ensured widespread dissemination of research findings reported in the Center for Women in Government and Civil Society's publication Appointed Policy Makers in State Government: Trend Analysis, 1997, 1998, 1999, released last December.
On the positive side, the appointments gap between women and men selected by governors for top ranking posts closed by 1.5 percentage points. Still, women appointees lag 40.4 points behind men. Very little change in the race and ethnicity composition of state-level appointed policy leaders overall occurred in the last three years."