Women’s Scientific Participation in Political Science and International Relations in Brazil

Mendes, Vinícius; Figueira, Ariane Roder

doi:10.1590/1806-9584-2019v27n254033

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“…However, findings from other countries such as Japan (Kodate & Kodate, 2015; Souma, 2019), Brazil (Mendes & Figueira, 2019), or India (Sinha & Sinha, 2011) suggest that scientific communities still need to put more efforts into creating a healthy environment for women in science. Amidst the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, these problems are intensifying and undermining female participation.…”

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Adopting open access in an emerging country: Is gender inequality a barrier in humanities and social sciences?

Vuong

Nguyen

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The participation of women in Vietnam's social sciences and humanities research has increased during the last several decades. However, they still face various challenges, such as the 'glass ceiling', social stereotypes, low recognition, and underrepresentation. The open‐access (OA) movement, being advocated for connecting science and community and improving scientists' visibility, offers a viable platform to increase participation of female researchers. This research investigated participation of Vietnamese women in 3,122 Social Sciences & Humanities publications during 2008–2019. Results show a rapid increase in female authors during the period, rising from 47.27% to 71.43% of articles having one or more Vietnamese female author. However, the number of women as first authors remained lower than men, with only 397 publications having a female first author. Bayesian analysis showed that although the number of coauthors was positively associated with the likelihood to publish in an OA journal, there was a negative association between Vietnamese female author participation and the likelihood to publish OA, a finding that matched the effect of female contribution from other countries. These findings hint at the gender inequality induced by cultural and socio‐economic factors, and we postulate that the influence of financial and other inequalities may limit the ability of women to take full advantage of OA publication to further their careers.

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“…A substantial share of the research studies on this topic began to be published in journals linked to the APSA and the ECPR, both of which published a series of works revealing that women are underrepresented in the most prominent political science journals (BREUNING and SANDERS, 2007;CARPIUC, 2016;EVANS and MOULDER, 2011;KONIG and ROPERS, 2018;TEELE and THELEN, 2017;YOUNG, 1995;WILLIAMS et al, 2015). Researchers in peripheral countries replicated these studies and found a similar pattern of inequalities, suggesting that these inequalities exist regardless of the scientific communities' position in the geopolitics of knowledge (CAMPOS, FERES, and GUARNIEIRI, 2017;CARPIUC, 2016;CURTIN, 2013;FERNÁNDEZ, 2006;MENDES and FIGUEIRA, 2019).…”

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“…Other studies corroborate the existence of gender inequalities within political science (DION and MITCHELL, 2019;MATHEWS and ANDERSEN, 2001;REID and CURY, 2019;YOUNG, 1995) To contribute to this debate, we combined two sets of studies that have developed within the Brazilian academic literature and were, until now, poorly articulated: one dedicated to identifying the subfields and methodological preferences within the Brazilian political science community (LEITE, 2016;NICOLAU and OLIVEIRA, 2017), and the other dedicated to providing data for the assessment of gender inequalities in submissions and publications within academic venues (BRINGEL, 2016;MENDES and FIGUEIRA, 2019).…”

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“…information on the composition of this community (CANDIDO, FERES JUNIOR, and CAMPOS, 2019;MENDES and FIGUEIRA, 2019), it is still unknown whether journals' biases against specific topics could be hindering the inclusion of women in the Brazilian academic community. To address this issue, we examined articles that were published in the most prestigious political science journals.…”

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“…The 'Associação Brasileira de Ciência Política' (ABCP -Brazilian Association of Political Science) and the 'Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Político' (SAAP -Argentine Society for Political Analysis) started a similar initiative, but they have not published many results 4 . In addition, academic articles addressing gender inequalities in Brazil are rare and mainly descriptive, providing few explanations for these phenomena(CAMPOS, FERES JÚNIOR, and GUARNIERI, 2017; CANDIDO, FERES JÚNIOR and CAMPOS, 2019;MENDES and FIGUEIRA, 2019).The international literature on gender inequalities within political science has shown that women are increasingly present in undergraduate and graduate programs but not as professors or holders of higher-level positions in the academic career. This phenomenon is known by the expression 'leaky-pipeline' (ABELS and WOODS, 2015; APSA, 2004; BATES, JENKINS, and PFLAEGER, 2012; CARPIUC, 2016; ______________________________________________________________________________________________ 2 See, for example, the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession, linked to APSA.…”

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Women’s Scientific Participation in Political Science and International Relations in Brazil

Cited by 7 publications

References 18 publications

Adopting open access in an emerging country: Is gender inequality a barrier in humanities and social sciences?

Adopting open access in an emerging country: Is gender inequality a barrier in humanities and social sciences?

The Gendered Division of Labor in Brazilian Political Science Journals

Researching the Gap: Women in Latin American Political Science

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