Career Development and Progression of Early Career Academics in Political Science: A Gendered Perspective

Briscoe-Palmer, Shardia; Mattocks, Kate

doi:10.1177/1478929920925664

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“…A second strategy to improve this underrepresentation is to create a network for women working on legislative studies, with the objectives of building collaborative mentoring environments, constructing professional identity, and increasing retention rates (American Political Science Association 2004, 2011, 2022; Bos and Schneider 2012; Briscoe-Palmer and Mattocks 2021; Cassese and Holman 2018; Hesli, Fink, and Duffy 2003; Monroe 2003). One strategy emphasized in the literature is Collaborative Mentorship Networks (CMN) 9 .…”

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Women in Legislative Studies: Improving Gender Equality

Powell

Schwindt‐Bayer

Sin

2023

APSC

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Representation of women in the field of legislative politics is remarkably small and the absence of women has wide-ranging ramifications. In Fall 2019, we surveyed 361 women that we identified as studying legislative politics within political science to understand why women’s representation in legislative studies is so low and what we can do about it. We found that many women study legislatures, but they do not always identify as scholars of legislative studies, often do not join the Legislative Studies Section, and tend to prioritize other journals over Legislative Studies Quarterly, the official journal of the section. In this article, we discuss several solutions to the problem of women’s underrepresentation in legislative studies, including the new Women in Legislative Studies initiative.

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confidence: 99%

Women in Legislative Studies: Improving Gender Equality

Powell

Schwindt‐Bayer

Sin

2023

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“…Research higlights how hostile disciplinary and organisational cultures can sideline early‐career women. In the US, women economists are twice as likely as men to indicate dissatisfaction with the climate of their discipline (Allgood et al., 2019) and surveys targeting political scientists reach similar results, with women reporting higher levels of direct and indirect discrimination and harassment than men (Briscoe & Mattocks, 2021; Sapiro & Campbell, 2018).…”

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confidence: 97%

Getting ahead in the social sciences: How parenthood and publishing contribute to gender gaps in academic career advancement

Nielsen,

Pedersen,

Larregue

2024

British Journal of Sociology

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How do parenthood and publishing contribute to gender gaps in academic career advancement? While extensive research examines the causes of gender disparities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers, we know much less about the factors that constrain women's advancement in the social sciences. Combining detailed career‐ and administrative register data on 976 Danish social scientists in Business and Management, Economics, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology (5703 person‐years) that obtained a PhD degree between 2000 and 2015, we estimate gender differences in attainment of senior research positions and parse out how publication outputs, parenthood and parental leave contribute to these differences. Our approach is advantageous over previous longitudinal studies in that we track the careers and publication outputs of graduates from the outset of their PhD education and match this data with time‐sensitive information on each individual's publication activities and family situation. In discrete time‐event history models, we observe a ∼24 per cent female disadvantage in advancement likelihoods within the first 7 years after PhD graduation, with gender differences increasing over the observation period. A decomposition indicates that variations in publishing, parenthood and parental leave account for ∼ 40 per cent of the gender gap in career advancement, suggesting that other factors, including recruitment disparities, asymmetries in social capital and experiences of unequal treatment at work, may also constrain women's careers.

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“…Those studies show that female political scientists are still underrepresented compared to their male counterparts [5,6]. The studies deal with topics such as the leaking pipeline, the citation gap, invisilibity and inclusion of women of color, and publication bias across various regional contexts [7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22]. However, scant attention has been paid to non-Western countries.…”

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The Impact of the Internationalization of Political Science on Publishing in Two Languages: The Case of Japan, 1971-2023

Nishikawa,

Sakai,

Matsui

2023

Preprint

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This study meticulously examines the ”science of science” and bibliometrics, illuminating new discoveries pertaining to scientific practices, such as scientific patterns, impacts, and citations. However, a significant portion of these studies predominantly concentrates on Western countries, thereby limiting the universality and applicability of their findings. There is a noticeable dearth of comprehensive research focused on non-Western countries, like Japan, resulting in a Western-centric bias in the existing literature. The authors propose an intricate case study focusing on Japanese political scientists, integrating both English and Japanese publications into their professional repertoire as a distinctive avenue to explore the internationalization trajectories of political science. Subsequent to a comprehensive literature review and the formulation of cogent research questions aimed at elucidating the internationalization dimensions of political science, a multifaceted research methodology is employed. Utilizing descriptive statistics, text analysis, and network analysis, the study endeavors to provide substantive answers to the research queries. The findings reveal a consistent augmentation in the number of Japanese political scientists disseminating their research in international journals since 1971. Conversely, the prevalence of international co-authorship has witnessed only a marginal increase. Additionally, a distinct bifurcation is evident among Japanese scholars, delineated by their publication preferences between international and domestic journals.

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Career Development and Progression of Early Career Academics in Political Science: A Gendered Perspective

Cited by 11 publications

References 50 publications

Women in Legislative Studies: Improving Gender Equality

Women in Legislative Studies: Improving Gender Equality

Getting ahead in the social sciences: How parenthood and publishing contribute to gender gaps in academic career advancement

The Impact of the Internationalization of Political Science on Publishing in Two Languages: The Case of Japan, 1971-2023

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