Research

Getting Women Appointed: New Jersey's Bipartisan Coalition (1984, 20 pages)
This monograph documents the formation and activities in 1981 and 1982 of New Jersey's Bipartisan Coalition for Women's Appointments, an ad hoc group organized after CAWP convened a meeting of politically active women to discuss how to get more women appointed to state-level posts.

Women Appointed to State Government: A Comparison with All State Appointees (1983, 119 pages)
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.

Women Appointed to the Carter Administration: A Comparison with Men (1983, 88 pages)
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.