In January 2001, the APSA Nominating Committee designated ThedaSkocpol as president-elect of APSA, making Skocpol only the thirdwomen ever to hold this office. In April of the same year, the APSACouncil passed a nonbinding resolution encouraging future APSANominating Committees to avoid choosing presidents-elect of the samegender for more than two years in a row. In February 2002, the APSANominating Committee shattered tradition by selecting SusanneRudolph as president-elect, thus promising the first instance of twowomen-given a normal course of events-consecutively assuming theAPSA presidency. These actions hold tremendous value, both symbolicand substantive, in widening the cracks in the glass ceiling forfemale professional political scientists. In this article, Idescribe how many people, together, worked to break the glassceiling. I then propose a program designed to increase genderequality within APSA as a professional association.