Abstract
able. G ender issues are now and probably will remain for the foreseeable future highly significant aspects of both the theory and the practice of public administration (Hale and Kelly, 1989; Guy, 1992). One issue, equal female representation, has been particularly prominent in organizational studies in both the public and the private sectors. This article addresses gender representation at the top levels of administration in American state governments. Our focus on women agency heads in state governments, however, extends beyond mere representative proportions. We also explore (with survey data) several common and not-socommon characteristics of women and men who head the thousands of administrative agencies, large and small, of the 50 states.
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