This article assesses the role of women in foreign policy bureaucracy, focusing on the Bush and Clinton administrations We advance three arguments: (a) the number and roles of women in the foreign policy bureaucracy have expanded since the Cold War; (b) these opportunities have been concentrated in predictable areas of the foreign policy bureaucracy; and (c) factors at the international, institutional, and societal levels combine to explain the increased opportunities.
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