Status of Women in the Profession

The Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession monitors the status of women in the profession at all levels, including faculty members and graduate students.  It reports periodically to the membership at large on its findings, works to advance research on women as well as on issues of particular concern to women, and works closely with other groups like the Women's Caucus for Political Science to share information and ideas and to ensure fair and equal treatment of women throughout the profession.

• Read the Committee's 2004 report, Remembering the "Life" in Academic Life: Finding a Balance Between Work and Personal Responsibilities in the Academy
• Read the Committee's 2001 report, The Status of Women in Political Science: Female Participation in the Professoriate and the Study of Women and Politics in the Discipline.

Additional resources:

• Women's Caucus for Political Science
• APSA Organized Section on Women and Politics
• APSA Mentoring Program
• Women Voters and the Gender Gap (online APSA press resource)
• Summary of 2005 APSA Workshop on Women in the Profession 
  
  The Committee will meet next on Friday, March 21, 2008 at the Western Political Science Association annual conference in San Diego, CA.
  
  For more information about the Committee and its work, contact Bahram Rajaee, APSA Director of International and External Relations.
  
  
  Committee Members:

Term expiring August 31, 2008

• S. Laurel Weldon, Purdue University  
• Elizabeth R. Wingrove, University of Michigan

Term expiring August 31, 2009

• Paula D. McClain, Duke University
• Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott, Eastern Michigan University

Term expiring August 31, 2010

• Gretchen G. Casper, Pennsylvania State University
• Kristen Renwick Monroe, University of California, Irvine, Chair