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Since the 1970s, numerous (mostly white) women have contributed to evaluation scholarship and practice. Based on our review of the AEA’s listing of past presidents, from its founding in 1986 through 2020, the association, unlike many other professional organizations in this country, had about equal proportion of men and women presidents (i.e., 17 female presidents and 18 male presidents). So, women certainly have been represented in the leadership of the discipline’s major professional association.

In the section that follows, we focus on some of the women that made significant contributions in evaluation between the 1970s and the early 1990s. In particular, we highlight the contributions of seven women who contributed directly to evaluation theory, method, policy, and/or practice through their work in academia, government, and evaluation practice communities. We highlight Carol H. Weiss, Yvonna S. Lincoln, Eleanor Chelimsky, Lois-Ellin Datta, Floraline I. Stevens, Laura Leviton, and Beatriz Chu Clewell. Similar to the earlier section on “hidden figures,” we also included a photo of each woman featured in this section.