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CAWP research and research by CAWP scholars that addresses emerging questions about American women's political participation. 

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  • Report
    Dec 1, 1983

    Women Appointed to State Government: A Comparison with All State Appointees

    This study examines appointed state cabinet-level officials. Based on data collected through telephone surveys, it compares the first-ever national profile of women in state cabinets to a profile of a sample of all appointees.

  • Report
    Dec 1, 1983

    Political Women Tell What It Takes

    This report focuses on the roles that political parties, women's organizations, and individual women have played in recruiting and supporting women candidates and appointees. 

  • Report
    Dec 1, 1983

    Women Appointed to the Carter Administration: A Comparison with Men

    This first-ever profile of women who have held high-level appointive offices at the federal level analyzes data about all the women and a sample of the men who served in high-level appointed positions under President Jimmy Carter. Women who served in selected positions on the president's and vice-president's staffs are also included.

  • Report
    Dec 1, 1983

    Women's Routes to Elective Office: A Comparison with Men's

    Based on data collected through surveys of women and men elected to state legislatures, county governing boards, and municipal offices, this report examines the factors which influence women's entry into elective offices. A major section focuses on black women's routes to elective office.

  • Report
    Dec 1, 1983

    Women's PACs

    This monograph, based on information gathered at a meeting with representatives of fourteen political action committees which solely or primarily support women candidates, describes some of the key questions faced by such groups, and illustrates the varied ways in which they have answered these questions.

  • Report
    Jan 1, 1983

    Women Make a Difference

    The report outlines steps which may be taken to expand women's participation in politics, focusing on those findings which are relevant and useful for women interested in seeking public office and for people who conduct programs to increase women's numbers in public life.

  • Report
    Jun 1, 1982

    Women State Legislators: Report from a Conference

    A report from CAWP's second conference for women state legislators, held in June 1982 on Cape Cod under a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. A central focus of the conference was women's legislative caucuses and other ways for women to work together.

  • Report
    Dec 1, 1980

    Women in Municipal Management: Choice, Challenge and Change

    This report about research conducted under a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development identifies and documents the routes of opportunity, credentialing requirements, necessary skills, barriers, and support systems related to the recruitment, hiring, and promotion of women as municipal managers. It also examines the relationship between elected women and women administrators serving in the same communities.

  • Report
    Dec 1, 1980

    Women's Organizations in the Public Service: Toward Agenda Setting

    This report identifies organizations of women public officials across the country and examines their goals and agendas, describing the founding of these organizations, their structures, their relationships with parent organizations, their reasons for forming, and their programs.

  • Report
    Jun 13, 1980

    Leaders of Organizations of Women Public Officials: Report from a Conference

    A report from CAWP's 1980 conference in Washington, D.C., attended by seventy-five leaders representing over forty organizations of women in politics and government. This conference was conducted under a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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