This is the 36^th year that I have been monitoring participation by women at our Annual Meeting. These PS reports have documented the ascent of women in our profession. 2007 was one of the best years for female participation at our meetings. (See Table 1.)

As I've noted previously, where women head divisions or panels, there is a greater likelihood of other women being selected for program contributions. Again this year one of the two chairs of the Program Committee was female. In 2007, 25 of the 53 division persons were women (47.2%) (Cf., 1996: 30.06%; 2000: 36%; 2001: 35.4%; 2002: 39.2%; 2003: 48.1%; 2004: 45.6%; 2005: 29.4%; 2006: 31.2%). The divisions they headed had women as 35.4% (139 of 393) of the chairpersons, 37.0% (795 of 2149) of the paper-givers, and 34.4% (161 of 468) of the discussants (Cf., 1996: 26.1%, 35.1%, 29.8%; 2000: 32.3%, 36.1%, 28.3%; 2001: 34.5%, 30.9%, 29.5%; 2002: 30.5%, 30.5%, 30.7%; 2003: 31.6%, 34.%, 31.6%; 2004: 29.7%, 32.4%, 28.4%; 2005: 33.2%, 30.1%, 37.1%; 2006: 29.7%, 32.3%, 29.7%).

The convention divisions led by women had 35.4% of the convention's female panel chairs, 37.0% of the paper-givers, and 34.4% of its discussants (Cf., 1996: 40.4%, 48.1%, 50.7%; 2000: 49.3%, 48.8%, 52.8%; 2001: 49.1%, 42.9%, 43.7%; 2002: 52.0%, 47.9%, 47.5%; 2003: 61.0%, 46.9%, 54.8%; 2004: 59.1%, 57.7%, 57.8%; 2005: 40.6%, 35.3%, 41.8%; 54.3%, 33.6%, 34.2%).

Women-chaired panels had 46.7% female paper-givers and 53.7% female discussants (Cf., 1996: 38.7%, 33.9%; 2000: 41.9%, 42.2%; 2001: 43.7%, 48.3%; 2002: 38.4%, 50.2%; 2003: 28.9%, 51.1%; 2004: 42.9%, 44.1%; 2005: 40.8%, 49.3%; 2006: 36.7%, 43.4%). These constituted 41.4% of the women giving papers at the 2007 convention and 54.2% of the women serving as discussants (Cf., 1996: 30.9%, 30.3%; 2000: 37.3%, 44.0%; 2001: 36.0%, 49.7%; 2002: 38.9%, 48.9%; 2003: 27.8%, 48.4%; 2004: 35.0%, 44.3%; 2005: 36.6%, 51.9%; 2006: 31.2%, 41.0%).

In recent years we've added poster session presentations to the program. At the 2007 meeting women were 32.4% of those making presentations (167 out of 516) (Cf., 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 poster sessions: women were 29.7%, 30.1%, 31.7%, 27.8%, 33.2%, 33.1%, and 35.3% of the presenters).

The divisions with the strongest female representation were those on Foundations of Political Theory*; Politics and History*; Teaching and Learning in Political Science*; Political Science Education; European Politics and Society*; Public Administration*; Public Policy*; Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations*; Urban Politics*; Women and Politics*; Race, Ethnicity, and Politics*; Political Communication; Politics, Literature, and Film*; New Political Science*; Comparative Democratization*; and Human Rights* (* = headed by women).

The divisions with the weakest female representation were those on Formal Political Theory; Political Economy; Political Methodology; Comparative Politics of Advanced Industrialized Societies; International Political Economy; International Security; Foreign Policy; Conflict Processes; Legislative Studies; Representation and Electoral Systems; Public Opinion and Political Participation; and International History and Politics.

Among the predominantly female panels (omitting the panels in the Women and Politics section, not a ghetto but an opportunity) (men are now doing more research in the field) were those on Influences on Identity: Islam, Ethnicity, and Economic Behavior; The Future of Law: Old Legal Institutions, New Approaches; Human Rights, Borders, and Global Governance; Theme Panel: International Human Rights Law; Roundtable: W Stands for Women: How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender; Suffering and the Political History, Interpretation and Representation; The Political Economy of Exchange Rates; Policy Narratives in Contemporary Policy Issues; Understanding Historical Causation; Who Governs?: The Domestic Politics of Trade Reform in Brazil, Russia, India, and China (The BRICS); Gender, Race and Representative Bureaucracy; Hannah Arendt and the Question of Violence: Can It Be Politics?; The State and the Family: Policy, Culture, and Ideology; Roundtable on Joni Lovenduski's “Feminizing Politics”; Legacies and Packaging: Understanding the Perceptions of and the Challenges Facing Presidential Aspirants; Roundtable: Bringing the Workers In; Political Action in Global Perspective; Reproductive Technologies and Social Justice; From Local to Global and Back Again: Making Human Rights Matter for Women; Theme Panel: Toward a Comparative Politics of Gender; Policy Feedbacks in Comparative and International Perspective; Transnational Activism, Border Crossing, and/or Foreign Intervention; Dynamics of Institutional Change in Coordinated Market Economies; Who Are the Global Governors; Popular Culture and Contemporary Feminism; The Psychology of Immigration; Roundtable: Scholarship at the Intersections: Feminist Methodologies, Social Movements and Human Rights; Democracy without Common Grounds; The Influence of State Election Laws on Voter Turnout; and Political Economy of Capital Markets.

And, finally, panels lopsidedly “stag”: Are the Times A-Changin'?: Technological Conundrums for Political Theory; Roundtable: Reasoning and Choice; Public Attitudes toward Racial and Ethnic Groups; What Can Normative Political Theory Learn from Psychology?; Why Do We Fear Freedom?: Non-Parametric and Semi-Parametric Methods in Political Science; The Politics of Corporate Governance Change; The Political Economy of Trade; Geography of Civil War; Methodological Developments in the Study of Legislatures; Causes and effects of Anti-Immigrant Opinion; Methods of Long-Range Election Forecasting; Federalism, Decentralization, and Party-Voter Linkages in Latin America and Europe; Qualitative Methods and International Relations Theory; Theme Roundtable: The American Voter Revisited: Multidisciplinary Perspectives; Formal Theory and International Conflict; Is Democracy Working?: Satisfaction, Accountability and Participation in Electoral Democracies; Fiscal Policies and Financing the Welfare State; The Role of Foreign Aid in Social Service Delivery, Security, and Reconstruction in Post-Conflict States; Fostering Collaboration and Civic Engagement: The Role of Public Policy: Cultural War: The Role of Issues in Voting Behavior; Governing Information Technologies; When History Meets Political Science: A Reassessment; Development Aid Allocation: The Impact of Country Characteristics on Allocation Decisions; The Militarization of US Foreign Policy; Quantitative Approaches to Nuclear Weapons Proliferation; The Impact of Campaign Finance Laws in US States; Beyond Toleration and Dialogue; Formal Theories of Legislative Processes; Temporal Quantitative Analysis; Regional Integration; Dynamics of Post-Civil War Politics; Political Control of the Bureaucracy; War and Public Opinion; Revisiting State Infrastructure Power; Theme Panel: Biology, Psychology, and Political Science; Race and Justice; Communication and Competition; Political Economy of Business-Government Relations; The Politics of Financial Sector Reform in Emerging Markets; Legislative-Executive Relations and Foreign Policy; How Do We Judge Presidents?: Measuring Leadership Performance; Local Elections and Turnout; The Macro Polity; American Strategies of Preponderance in the Early Cold War; Theme Panel: Empire in Comparative Perspective; Nietzsche and political Judgment; Views of the Political Subject; On the Political Economy of Collective Action: Causal Inference; New Perspectives on Durable Authoritarianism; Democracy and Inequality in the Developing World; Strange Bedfellows as Normal Politics; Maintaining Coalitions in War and Peace; New Challenges to East Asian Security; Faith in the Polling Booth: Religion and the Voter; An Ownership Society: Cultural Perspectives on John Rawls' Idea of a Property-Owning Democracy; Formal Theories of Voting and Elections; The Rise of a New Left?: Recent Presidential Elections and New Political Directions in Latin America; Roundtable: Sovereignty and Citizenship in States with Territories; Roundtable: Remembering Donald Rothchild; The Construction and Impact of International Regimes on Domestic Institutional Development; Comparative Studies of Policy Agendas; Is It Really Fundamental?: Religion and the Micro-Dynamics of Violence in Iraq; Containing Nuclear Proliferation; Communication, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy; Judicial Policy Making and Institutional Capacity; Election Law Reform; Development Under Dictatorship; New Perspectives on the American State; The Politics of Foreign Direct Investment; Roundtable on Bounding Power; Roundtable: The Nuclearization of North Korea; Computational Approaches to Civil Wars; Judicial Power; Theories of Supreme Court Decision-Making; The Quality of Decision-Making in Citizen Deliberative Assemblies; Theme Panel: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Inequality; There Panel: Simplicity versus Complexity in Agent-Based Modeling for the Social Sciences; Methodological Advances in the Study of Law and Courts; Political Determinants of Growth and Equality; History of Conflict; Theme Panel: Insights for International Security from the Life Sciences; Methodological Advances in the Study of Elections and Voting Behavior; Negotiated Authoritarianism; Voters, Partisan Politics and Welfare States; Understanding and Responding to Islamic Terrorism; Balancing and Wedge Strategies in International Politics; Parties and Legislatures in Comparative Perspective; Roundtable: What's New About the New Originalism?; Party Polarization; Ideology, Values, and Sophistication; Case Studies, Causation, and Theory Development; The Ideology of Non-Legislative Institutions in American Politics; Immigration, Multiculturalism and Internal Nationalism; Soft Power in International Security; Keeping the Modern Presidency in Check and Balance; Looking Forward to the 2008 Presidential Nomination Battle; Citizen Thinking, Feeling, and Reasoning About Politics; Party Strategies and Electoral Systems; Power and Prerogative in the George W. Bush Presidency; The Influence of Party Identification on Turnout and Vote Choice; Cicero and the History of Ideas; Deterrence, Commitment, and Bargaining in Civil and Interstate Conflicts; Estimating Legislators' Ideal Points; Coalitions and Minority Governments in Parliamentary Democracies; and Roundtable: Revisiting the Origins of Democracy.