Appointed Policy Makers in State Government – Glass Ceiling In Gubernatorial Appointments, 1997-2007. Center for Women in Government and Civil Society, University at Albany, State University of New York, Summer 2008. [Peggy Garvin]

• “The percentage of top-ranking executive leadership positions held by women has increased, but not by much. By 2007, women held 35% of executive posts, compared to 28% in 1997.
• Between 1997 and 2007, governors appointed substantially more women as department heads (9 percentage points more), but only 2.4 percentage points more women as their closest staff advisors. Women remain underrepresented at the helm of executive agencies and in governors’ executive offices.”