Misdirected Backlash: The Evolving Nature of Academia and the Status of Women in Political Science

Sarkees, Meredith Reid; McGlen, Nancy E.

doi:10.1017/s1049096500048927

Cited by 7 publications

(6 citation statements)

References 11 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Even when all else is equal, female faculty tend to be more involved than their male counterparts in activities that detract from research, such as advising, administrative work, and serving on departmental committees (APSA Committee on the Status of Women 1992; Sarkees and McGlen 1992;Schneider 1998).…”

Section: Gender Disparities In Academic Publishingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Even when controlling for marital status, women are less likely to publish than are their male counterparts (Sarkees and McGlen 1992). Cheryl Young (1995) suggested that the content of women's scholarship may lead to the marginalization of the voices, perspectives, and methods of women in top academic publications.…”

Section: Gender Disparities In Academic Publishingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to Young, women's research styles and topic choices might not fit traditional notions of what many reviewers and editors consider to be the best or most rigorous research. Few articles about women and politics, for example, have been published in leading political science journals other than Women & Politics (Sarkees and McGlen 1992). In consequence, women's publishing opportunities may be restricted, or ghettoized, to specific and gendered domains.…”

Section: Gender Disparities In Academic Publishingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Between 1980 and 1990, women authored or coauthored only 12% of all articles published in the American Political Science Review (Sarkees and McGlen 1992). Looking beyond the APSR, Young (1995) examined 15 top political science journals and found that only 24% of all articles published between 1983 and 1994 had at least one female author.…”

Section: Women In Political Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Indeed, in just the first 12 years of its existence, Women & Politics published one-third of the total number of women and politics articles ever published in the top 15 political science journals combined (Kelly, Williams, and Fisher 1994). 5 Political science, like other male-dominated disciplines, may be resistant to research that concerns women and gender (Sarkees andMcGlen 1992, 1999;Young 1995).…”

Section: Women In Political Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

See 4 more Smart Citations

A Gender Gap in Publishing? Women's Representation in Edited Political Science Books

Mathews

Andersen

2001

APSC

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Academic publishing is tightly connected to college and university faculty members' prospects for promotion, tenure, salary increases, and professional recognition, and is often regarded as an index of one's scholarly contribution to a given field (Blackburn and Lawrence 1995). This is problematic because, as many researchers have clearly documented, women publish less than men. Because female faculty produce fewer publications on average than their male counterparts, they also receive lower pay and are more likely to hold the ranks of assistant and associate professor (Blackburn and Lawrence 1995; Creamer 1998; Dinauer and Ondeck 1999; Roland and Fontanesi-Seime 1996; Schneider 1998). And, although gender differences in publishing have narrowed in most disciplines over the past two decades, in most cases, men still outpublish women by a ratio of two to one (Roland and Fontanesi-Seime 1996). Among the factors cited as being important to publishing regularly are ambition, reputation, merit, institutional support and resources, professional networks and collegial/mentoring relationships, research topic and methodology, and time.

show abstract

Section: Gender Disparities In Academic Publishingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Gender Disparities In Academic Publishingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Gender Disparities In Academic Publishingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Women In Political Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%