Domains

The dataset is grouped by domain because the analytical question is not whether women hold senior positions — that question is settled — but whether the rate at which they reach those positions is explicable by ordinary pipeline progress, or whether something else is operating. Different domains have different selection mechanisms: voters in elections, party caucuses, presidential nomination with legislative confirmation, governing-board recommendation, ecclesiastical synod, and others. The mechanism shapes what kind of evidence would detect a change in selection. Each domain page below opens with a short framing of its mechanism profile, followed by the entries.

Counterexamples — institutions where the first-woman event has not occurred or the cluster trend is absent — are tracked separately on the counterexamples page and constrain the interpretations the data can support.