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• Analyzing policymaking processes, behaviors, power struggles
• Research methodology
• Organizing ideas
• Interpreting ideas/events/policy
• Interdisciplinary methods
• Decision making
• Examining evidence
• Compiling and evaluating information
• Comparing/contrasting ideas and information
• Dealing with data
• Critical thinking

• Writing clear and concise reports
• Presenting viewpoints/analyses
• Understanding/speaking to persons from different backgrounds
• Supplying historical perspective with information on past experiences
• Recommending measures to deal with social problems
• Conveying ideas
• Persuading/influencing
• Listening to others

• Adapting approaches used in public relations, marketing, and politics to different populations
• Predicting how groups will react to new institutions or social changes/pressures
• Assessing needs/interests
• Organizing and meeting deadlines
• Selling
• Planning
• Translating theory into action
• Organizing materials and information

• Leading/participating in groups
• Comparing cultures/societies
• Knowledge of gender, race, and class concerns
• Working within organizations
• Coordinating committees
• Counseling
• Helping others
  
  

• University at Albany Department of Women's Studies
• National Organization for Women