This article presents a comparative analysis of the institutional trajectories traced by
women's policy agencies within government in the province of British Columbia in Canada
and in the state of New South Wales in Australia. In both cases, a period during which the
principal women's policy agency took the form of a freestanding government ministry was
followed by a period during which that ministry (along with an array of women's policy
agencies located elsewhere in government) was dismantled. The partisan complexion of the …

This paper presents a comparative analysis of the institutional trajectories traced by
women's policy agencies within government in the province of British Columbia in Canada
and in the state of New South Wales in Australia. In both cases, a period during which the
principal women's policy agency took the form of a free-standing government Ministry was
followed by a period during which that Ministry–along with an array of women's policy
agencies located elsewhere in government–was dismantled. The partisan complexion of the …