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The Newsletter of the Women’s Caucus of the American Political Science Association
October, 2008
The Women's Caucus for Political Science is a non-profit organization which seeks to improve the status of women in the profession of political science by promoting equal opportunity for women political scientists in employment, promotion & tenure decisions, as well as graduate school admissions & financial aid decisions. WCPS maintains several standing committees that address these concerns
Allison Calhoun-Brown, Georgia State University – President (acalhounbrown@gsu.edu)
Wendy Gunther-Canada, University of Alabama, Birmingham – President-Elect and Program
Chair (wgcanada@uab.edu).
Valerie Martinez-Ebers, University of North Texas, Treasurer. (vjm0007@unt.edu).
Elizabeth Bennion, Indiana University, South, Secretary/Membership Chair.
(ebennion@iusb.edu)
Karen M. Kedrowski, Winthrop University – Newsletter Editor
(kedrowskik@winthrop.edu)
Next year, the Women’s Caucus for Political Science will celebrate its 40th year. In 1969, when the organization was founded a mere 5% of the people on program at the American Political Science Convention were women. APSA business was conducted entirely by males; very few women participated in professional functions. In the past four decades things have changed appreciably. As you know, last year APSA elected its first black female president. Diane Pinderhughes served as a visible indicator of the kind or organizational shift that was only a distant (though perhaps motivating) vision for the 5 women that founded the Caucus forty years ago. As I sat in the audience at the presidential address, I reflected with sincere appreciation on the change that these women helped to produce. When Katherine Klotzburger (Rutgers U.), Audrey Wells (U. Fl.), Carol Barry (Syracuse U.), Berenice Carroll (U.IL) and Judith Stiehm (UCLA) decided to establish this organization dedicated to equal opportunity and to improving the status of women in the profession they were four graduate students and a recent PhD. Today, we are all beneficiaries of their efforts. Of a certainty there is still work to be done to ensure gender and racial equality in the political science profession. Still, as we recommit ourselves to this continuing goal, it is worth acknowledging how the mission of the Caucus has been advanced over the years. It is worth saying thank you to the many fantastic women and men who have engaged this project in their scholarship, in their teaching, in their mentorship, in their professional service….with their lives. Political science is better because you cared. As the Caucus assesses how to most effectively serve our members and our profession in the future we are encouraged by the difference that your commitment to change has made.
Best---
Allison Calhoun-Brown
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