2008 Phenomenal Woman Awardee Jane Bayes, Ph.D.

Professor of Political Science
California State University, Northridge

Dr. Bayes earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from UCLA in 1967.

At CSUN she has taught courses in:
• Women and Politics
• Political Economy
• American Government and Politics
• POLS 449, The Politics of Community Action. This course specializes in placing students in national, state, and local governmental positions, as well as in community non-profit and business groups where students can integrate classroom learning with real world experience while obtaining academic credit.

Her publications include:

Ideologies and Interest Groups in the United States (Chandler and Sharp 1982)
Minority Politics and Ideologies in the United States (Chandler and Sharp 1982)
Comparable Worth, Pay Equity, and Public Policy, with Rita Mae Kelly (Greenwood 1988)
Women and Public Administration: International Perspectives (Hayworth 1991) Globalization, Gender, and Democratization, with Kelly, Hawkesworth and Young (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001)
Globalization, Gender, and Religion: The Politics of Women's Rights in Catholic and Muslim Contexts, with Nayereh Tohidi (Palgrave 2001)
Research and Interests

Dr. Bayes is also the founder and Director of the Institute of Gender, Globalization and Democracy at California State University, Northridge, and the director of a grant to develop an integrated curriculum on North American Studies.

She is also a member of the International Social Science Association's Research Committee on Gender, Globalization, and Democratization.