I’m getting around to this one a little late, but here’s that University at Albany report Mitt Romney mentioned in his second debate with President Obama on how many women he appointed to senior posts while he was governor of Massachusetts.

Romney referred to the school slightly inaccurately (my alma mater) as the “University of New York in Albany.”

“I was proud of the fact that after I staffed my cabinet and my senior staff that the University of New York in Albany did a survey of all 50 states and concluded that mine had more women in senior leadership positions than any other state in America.”

The 2004 report does seem to show that Romney appointed many women to senior-level policy positions, ranking the Bay State at the top.

But by 2007, when Romney’s tenure as governor ended, a follow-up report ranked Massachusetts seventh.

The 2007 study found that Massachusetts had about 32 percent of policy-making posts held by women. Ten years later, the state had 45 percent of women in those positions. The state was ranked seventh in the number of women appointed to top level positions among the states.

New York was ranked 29th, while Missouri was ranked first.

Romney was Massachusetts governor from 2003 through 2007.

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