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Who We Are

Mission statement:  To engage, support, and promote women who study legislative politics. 

We define legislative politics broadly to include legislatures, legislators, legislative elections, legislative representation, and relations between legislatures and other branches of government. We embrace legislative scholars and scholarship from diverse perspectives, such as gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality. We study a wide variety of lawmaking bodies—the U.S. Congress, U.S. state legislatures, comparative legislatures at the national and subnational level, and international legislatures. 


Women in Legislative Studies Executive Committee: 
Eleanor Neff Powell, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Leslie Schwindt-Bayer,  Rice University
Gisela Sin,  University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

​Funding:
APSA Centennial Center William A. Steiger Fund for Legislative Studies
Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association
Legislative Studies Quarterly
National Science Foundation
​Rice University's Creative Ventures Fund


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Women in Legislative Studies was founded in 2020. 

​​Art and logo designed by Jeff Bayer, jbayerart.com 
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