Amy G. Mazur is a C.O. Johnson Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science at Washington State University. Her research and teaching interests focus on comparative methodology and comparative gender and policy issues with a particular emphasis on France. She is co editor of "Political Research Quarterly". Her books include: "Comparative State Feminism" (Sage, 1995) (editor with Dorothy McBride); "Gender Bias and the State: Symbolic Reform at Work in Fifth Republic France" (Pittsburgh University Press, 1995); "State Feminism, Women's Movement, and Job Training: Making Democra...