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Cracking the Glass Ceiling—Keeping It Broken

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 June 2002

Kristen Renwick Monroe
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine

Abstract

In January 2001, the APSA Nominating Committee designated Theda Skocpol as president-elect of APSA, making Skocpol only the third women ever to hold this office. In April of the same year, the APSA Council passed a nonbinding resolution encouraging future APSA Nominating Committees to avoid choosing presidents-elect of the same gender for more than two years in a row. In February 2002, the APSA Nominating Committee shattered tradition by selecting Susanne Rudolph as president-elect, thus promising the first instance of two women-given a normal course of events-consecutively assuming the APSA presidency. These actions hold tremendous value, both symbolic and substantive, in widening the cracks in the glass ceiling for female professional political scientists. In this article, I describe how many people, together, worked to break the glass ceiling. I then propose a program designed to increase gender equality within APSA as a professional association.

Type
THE PROFESSION
Copyright
© 2002 by the American Political Science Association

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