Abstract
The persistent concentration of economic, social and political power in a relatively small group has been a traditional subject of investigation by social scientists, but the fact that women are hardly ever among these power-holders in the public sphere, even in advanced democracies, has been generally ignored in mainstream social and political science. With the important, but relatively recent, exception of feminist scholarship, most analyses of elites and of leadership ignore the gender aspect of power and decision-making. Changes in gender relations in the family, labour market, education, sexual behaviour and political participation have attracted considerable academic interest in recent decades (e.g., Epstein, 1988; Walby, 1990). Yet the relative absence of women among power elites seems to be a more central issue to journalists than to non-feminist political and social theorists.
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