ALBANY, N.Y. -- After making gains in the ranks of state-level policy-makers, the percentage of women holding such positions fell in the past two years, a university research group said.
In 1999 women held 29.8 percent of leadership posts appointed by governors. That number rose to 35 percent in 2001, but then dropped to 32 percent two years later, according to a report released Thursday by the Center for Women in Government & Civil Society at the University at Albany.
"The glacial rate of change is discouraging," said Judith Saidel, the study's project director. "Gubernatorial appointees across the country do not look like the people they are serving."
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