Welcome to the APSA Women’s Caucus homepage. Here you can find the following information:

·    About Us
·    Prizes
·    Reviews Undertaken
·    Other Activities
·    Links

We hope this page proves a useful resource for current and potential members. If you feel that you have anything you can contribute to it please get in touch!
For the work done to date, a big thank you to all contributors- without you this page would not have been possible. 

Sarah Maddison
sarah.maddison@unsw.edu.au
2006-2007 Women’s Caucus Representative.

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About Us
APSA Women's Caucus Aims are:

* to improve the standing of women in the political science profession

* to promote the study of women and politics

The Women’s Caucus was established at the 1979 APSA conference in Hobart on the initiative of Carole Pateman and Marian Sawer. Click here for an account of the history of the Women's Caucus prepared with the help of members and published in Australian Journal of Political Science 39 (3): 553-66. Accidentally left out of Table 3 on gender-focused political science courses were two courses in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of NSW - Sex, Human Rights and Justice taught by Helen Pringle and Sexuality and Politics taught by Vanessa Farrer.

The annual general meeting of the Women's Caucus is held during the annual conference of APSA, normally over lunch on the first day of the conference. During the AGM a Women's Caucus representative is elected to serve on the APSA Executive, and other business is discussed, as reported in the minutes.

The Women's Caucus has counterparts in other political science associations:
·    Women and Politics Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association (UK)
·    Women's Caucus for Political Science of the American Political Science Association
·   Research Committee 19 of the International Political Science Association


Prizes
The Women's Caucus is responsible for a Biennial Women and Politics Prize which is co-sponsored by APSA and the Institute of Public Administration Australia (ACT Division). Click here for a list of the prize winners since 1982. The Prize was last awarded in 2004 and will next be offered in 2006.

Reviews Undertaken
The Women's Caucus has also taken responsibility since 1979 for initiating regular reviews of the status of women in the profession and, since 1981, for reviews of the APSA policy adopted that year that 'the study of women should be incorporated in all politics courses'. Click here for the most recent gender audit of first-year politics textbooks.

Other Activities
Other activities include a cumulative list of Australian theses relating to women, politics and public policy.

To date we do not have a list of equivalent NZ theses, but should anyone want to co-ordinate such a list, we would welcome its contribution to this site.

The Women's Caucus also provides more general resource sharing.

Links

Data
·    Global Database of Quotas for Women  
·    Women in Parliament: Beyond Numbers (available in English, French, Spanish and Bahasa Indonesia) updated in 2002
·    Women heads of government and women ministers  (including lists for specific portfolios such defence and finance)
·    Percentage of women in national parliaments in descending order ranked by percentage in lower house in 181 countries
·    Women presiding officers
·    European database on women in decision making:

Organisations
·    Women and Politics Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association (UK)
·    Women's Caucus for Political Science of the American Political Science Association
·    Research Committee 19 of the International Political Science Association
·    Australian Federation of University Women Awards:
·    Women Watch : The UN internet Gateway on the Advancement and Empowerment of Women
·    Women’s Human Rights Net   
·    Women Leaders Online
·    Research Centre on Women and Politics