00719nam a2200085Ia 4500100002100000245009800021260000900119520048600128583001900614  aREYNOLDS, Andrew  aWomen in the legislatures and executives of the world : knocking at the highest glass ceiling  c1999  aReports on the results of a survey of the governments of the world as they were constituted in 1998.  Seeks to map the number of women in legislative lower houses in 180 nation-states and related territories with autonomous governments; to identify and categorize women in the executives of these 180 cases by type of ministerial portfolio; and, to test the leading hypotheses, which speculate about the factors hindering or facilitating women's access to political representation.  c3/7/00kM2LMGR