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2004
Appointed Policy Makers inState Government
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Center for Women in Government &Civil SocietyUniversity at Albany,State University of New York Winter 2004A Report of the
 
Five-Year Trend Analysis:Gender,Race and Ethnicity 
Highlights
In the aggregate,women's progress as holders of top-rankingappointee positions in state governments has not been steady.Between 2001 and 2003,women's share of executive branchleadership posts dropped almost three percentage points,butremained above the 1999 level.Even as the 2000 census recorded substantial changes in therace and ethnicity composition of the U.S.population,thedemographics of executive branch policy leadership changedvery little between 1999 and 2003.African American women advanced substantially in the numberof policy leadership positions to which they were appointed bythe nation's governors.African Americans,Latinos,Asian Americans,and AmericanIndians continue to hold remarkably few top advisor staff positions in governors' offices.White men lost the largest share of department head positionsbetween 1999 and 2003.The percentage of agency head postsheld by white women,African American women,and AsianAmerican women rose slightly.Only five states (Massachusetts .96;Oregon .95;Florida .88;Iowa .85;Missouri .83) are close to parity in terms of thedegree to which women are represented in top policypositions.(Parity is achieved when the representativenessratio = 1.0).In eleven additional states (Connecticut,Kansas,Kentucky,Michigan,Mississippi,Nebraska,Nevada,Tennessee,Virginia,Wisconsin,Wyoming) women hold about three-quarters of thetop policy posts to which they would be appointed,if theproportion of women appointees were equal to the proportionof women in the population of those states.In nine states (Alabama,Georgia,Idaho,Maryland,Minnesota,New Hampshire,Ohio,South Carolina,South Dakota),womenhold less than half the top policy posts to which they would beappointed,if the proportion of women appointees were equalto the proportion of women in the population of those states.
Dear
 
Friend
Since 1996,the Center for Women in Government & CivilSociety has published a series of reports as part of the
 Appointed Policy Makers in State Government
project.Centerresearchers collect original data from the 50 states on the gen-der,race and ethnicity of two key leadership cohorts in theexecutive branch of state governments:gubernatorial appointeesat the helm of departments,agencies,offices,boards,commis-sions,and authorities;and top staff advisors with policy-influenc-ing responsibility in governors' offices.We reported in 1997 that women held 28.3% of top policyleadership posts;in 2003 the percentage was 32.0%.A net gainof 3.7 percentage points over a seven-year period is surely avery slow rate of advancement,especially because it representsa drop of almost three percentage points from two years earli-er.Furthermore,as indicated in this publication,only five of the50 states are even close to parity in terms of the degree towhich women are represented in top policy positions.Much progress remains to be achieved before women holdthe proportion of top-ranking gubernatorial appointments ineach state to which they would be named,if the proportion of women appointees were equal to the proportion of women ineach state’s population.Later this year,the
 Appointed Policy Makers in StateGovernment
project will release additional publications,includinga new set of reports,
Women's Leadership Profiles
,for every state.These reports present overviews,based on data from a varietyof sources,of the current status of women in five major cate-gories of political leadership in state governments:statewideelected officials;highest state court judges;department heads;top staff advisors;and state legislators.Stay tuned and please let us know if we can assist you inany way to disseminate these reports. Judith R.Saidel,Ph.DProject DirectorExecutive DirectorCenter for Women in Government & Civil Society
Acknowledgements
We acknowledge withappreciation the Ford Foundation’s generoussupport of The Appointed Policy Makers in StateGovernment Project.
Project
 
Staff
 Judith R.Saidel,Ph.D.Alison C.OlinJamie Iuliano
Project DirectorProject AssociateUndergraduate Assistant
 Julia KoschinskyHaidy H.BrownKrista Roff 
Senior Research AssociateGraduate AssistantUndergraduate Assistant
 
A Report of the Center for Women in Government &Civil Society- Winter 2004
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29.8%70.2%34.9%65.1%32.0%68.0%WomenMen
Percentage of Women and Men Policy Leaders, 1999 - 2003
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Women's progress as holders of appointed executive branch policy leadership positions has notbeen steady in recent years.Between 1999 and 2003,women's share of top-rankinggubernatorial appointments increased and then declined,but remained above the 1999 level.
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