WILMA RULE is Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. She has published numerous comparative studies of the political and socio-economic conditions affecting women's legislative recruitment. She is co-editor, with Joseph F. Zimmerman, of Electoral Systems in Comparative Perspective: Their Impact on Women and Minorities (Greenwood, 1994) and U.S. Electoral Systems: Their Impact on Women and Minorities (Praeger, 1992).NORMA NOONAN is Professor of Political Science at Augsburg College. A long time specialist on Russia and the former Soviet Union, she is the author of over 70 articles on women in Russia, Soviet/Russian foreign policy, and Soviet/Russian political elites. For over a decade, her research has focused on women in Russia, past and present, and trying to interpret Russian women in terms of the Soviet experience. She currently directs and teaches in a graduate program on leadership.