Clearing the Pipeline? Gender and the Review Process at the American Political Science Review

Breuning, Marijke; Gross, Benjamin Isaak; Feinberg, Ayal; Martinez, Melissa; Sharma, Ramesh; Ishiyama, John

doi:10.1017/s1049096518000069

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“…At the graduate school level, women may receive less mentoring or encouragement to write and submit first author research articles (Moss‐Racusin et al, 2012b; Unkovic et al, 2016). A study analyzing authorship in political science journals found a gender bias in the perception of likely acceptance in journals, and therefore, in the ultimate decision to submit articles (Breuning et al, 2018).…”

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First Authorship Gender Gap in the Geosciences

Pico

Bierman

Doyle³

et al. 2020

Earth and Space Science

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Although gender parity has been reached at the graduate level in the geosciences, women remain a minority in faculty positions. First authorship of peer‐reviewed scholarship is a measure of academic success and is often used to project potential in the hiring process. Given the importance of first author publications for hiring and advancement, we sought to quantify whether women are underrepresented as first authors relative to their representation in the field of geoscience. We compiled first author names across 13 leading geoscience journals from January 2013 to April 2019 (n = 35,183). Using a database of 216,286 names from 79 countries, across 89 languages, we classified the likely gender associated with each author's given (first) name. We also estimated the gender distribution of authors who publish using only initials, which may itself be a strategy employed by some women to preempt perceived (and actual) gender bias in the publication process. Female names represent 13–30% of all first authors in our database and are substantially underrepresented relative to the proportion of women in early career positions (30–50%). The proportion of female‐name first authors varies substantially by subfield, reflecting variation in representation of women across geoscience subdisciplines. In geoscience, the quantification of this first authorship gender gap supports the hypothesis that the publication process—namely, achievement or allocation of first authorship—is biased by social factors, which may modulate career success of women in the sciences.

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confidence: 99%

First Authorship Gender Gap in the Geosciences

Pico

Bierman

Doyle³

et al. 2020

Earth and Space Science

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“…When gender gaps in submissions align with gender gaps in perceptions, outreach also may need to focus on changing the substance of journals’ reputations. Expectations about potential biases in the types of articles that a journal publishes could affect scholars’ decisions to submit (Breuning et al 2018; Nedal and Nexon 2018). [A]lthough submission gaps are relatively constant across journals, perception gaps are not.…”

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“…As Breuning et al (2018) point out, however, editors can do only so much to influence impressions. Scholars in multiple positions throughout the discipline—advisers, colleagues, and peers—also play an important role in shaping views about what reviewers and journal editors want to publish as well as what type (and whose) work is worth submitting where.…”

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Gender Gaps in Perceptions of Political Science Journals

Brown

Horiuchi

Htun³

et al. 2019

APSC

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The gender publication gap puts women at a disadvantage for tenure and promotion, which contributes to the discipline’s leaky pipeline. Several studies published in PS find no evidence of gender bias in the review process and instead suggest that submission pools are distorted by gender. To make a contribution to this important debate, we fielded an original survey to a sample of American Political Science Association members to measure participants’ perceptions of political science journals. Results reveal that the gender submission gap is accompanied by a gender perception gap at some but not all political science journals we study. Women report that they are more likely to submit to and get published in some journals, whereas men report as such with regard to other journals. Importantly, these gaps are observed even among scholars with the same methodological (i.e., quantitative or qualitative) approach.

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“…Mentoring programs including Journeys in World Politics, Visions in Methodology, and Pay It Forward help to retain women in the profession by providing concrete strategies for survival and success. New scholarship on gender and citations in the American Political Science Review— and a new all-female editorial board—offers encouragement (Breuning et al 2018). Building on the survey, our larger book project underscores that the call for more equitable norms and practices does not come from one lonely voice or even a small group of voices but rather from a persistent chorus of scholar–parents working in all stages and settings within the profession.…”

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Best Practices for Normalizing Parents in the Academy: Higher- and Lower-Order Processes and Women and Parents’ Success

Windsor

Crawford

2019

APSC

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Our research on bias in family formation is rooted in the extant literature of gender and academia but moves beyond discussion of the “leaky-pipeline” metaphor to explore less frequently addressed issues including pregnancy loss, illness, lactation, and challenges faced by academic parents who are the partners of those who have given birth. We explore the lower-order processes that inform the gap in professional achievement between men and women in political science specifically and in academia more broadly. In turn, these lower-order processes manifest as more observable higher-order outcomes such as the disparate rates of tenure and promotion. We conducted a 100-question survey from November 2017 through July 2019 involving more than 300 respondents. Through analysis of open-ended survey responses, we identified a common theme uniting faculty experiences at a range of universities: family formation and parenting can be isolating processes for academics, and there often is a gross lack of both formal and informal support within universities, which creates the potential for setbacks in both personal and professional life. We highlight the challenges confronting academic parents—especially women—and suggest potential avenues to a more inclusive and balanced approach to academia.

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Clearing the Pipeline? Gender and the Review Process at the American Political Science Review

Cited by 19 publications

References 10 publications

First Authorship Gender Gap in the Geosciences

First Authorship Gender Gap in the Geosciences

Gender Gaps in Perceptions of Political Science Journals

Best Practices for Normalizing Parents in the Academy: Higher- and Lower-Order Processes and Women and Parents’ Success

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