Despite comprising a large and increasing proportion of the UnitedStates population—about 14.7%, according to March 2006 Census Bureauestimates—Latinos continue to be severely underrepresented inpolitical science, and today comprise less than 2% of the academy(Census Bureau 2006; Michelson 2007). Increased recent attention to theissues of recruitment and retention of Latino political scientistsby professional associations such as the American Political ScienceAssociation (APSA) notwithstanding, the number of Latino scholars inthe field continues to lag behind that of other racial and ethnicgroups. But just where in the pipeline does the problem exist? Arenot enough Latinos being recruited for graduate study? Are Latinosbeing successfully recruited but then not finishing their degrees?Or is the leak occurring later in scholars' careers, perhaps betweengraduation and tenure? Avalos (1991) notedthat Latinas were particularly underrepresented, with few womenentering or completing Ph.D. programs. More than 16 years later,does a gender gap persist among Latino political scientists? Doleaks in the pipeline differ for Latinos and Latinas? These are thequestions that drive this research.Anearlier version of this research was presented at the 2007Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Wewould like to thank Maria Chavez, Patricia Jamarillo, LisaGarcía Bedolla, Celeste Montoya, Luis Fraga, Anna Sampaio, andJuan Carlos Huerta for their helpful comments, as well asMichael Jackson and Lilly Montalvo for their researchassistance. We are also indebted to all of the respondents fortheir cooperation. All errors, of course, remain ourown.