Are We There Yet? Addressing Diversity in Political Science Subfields

How Many Citations to Women Is “Enough”? Estimates of Gender Representation in Political Science

“…We used APSA field and section membership to establish minimum baselines for the proportion of references that should include female authors, similar to Reid and Curry’s (2019) use of membership data to estimate progress toward descriptive representation across political science research areas. If publications are an outcome potentially influenced by gendered practices, professional association memberships may be less biased baselines because membership involves fewer resources and gatekeepers.…”

“…Our study provides political scientists with estimates of women's representation across a wide range of research fields using the gender distribution in professional association membership and authors in 38 political science journals. Though other studies discussed gender across American Political Science Association (APSA) organized sections (Reid and Curry 2019) and authors in a much smaller subset of journals (Dion, Sumner, and Mitchell 2018; Teele and Thelen 2017), we also compare the gender distribution of authors to those of journal sponsor organizations, illustrating the size of the gendered publication gap across numerous research fields within political science. In only one of 26 journals…”

Building and Sustaining an Academic Pipeline by the Sponsorship of Women of Color Political Scientists

“…The discipline of political science is majority white and male, and women of color comprise less than 5% of all faculty in the profession and remain underrepresented across the subfields (American Political Science Association 2008; Reid and Curry 2019). Persisting underrepresentation of political scientists of color leads some scholars to ask, “Where do we begin?” to increase and sustain diversity and to ensure the well-being, success, and survivability of political scientists of color (Garcia and Hancock Alfaro 2021; Lavariega Monforti 2012; Mershon and Walsh 2016).…”

“…T he discipline of political science is majority white and male, and women of color comprise less than 5% of all faculty in the profession and remain underrepresented across the subfields (American Political Science Association 2008; Reid and Curry 2019). Persisting underrepresentation of political scientists of color leads some scholars to ask, "Where do we begin?"…”

How Many Citations to Women is “Enough”? Estimates of Gender Representation in Political Science

“…Our study provides political scientists with estimates of women's representation across a wide range of research fields using the gender distribution in professional association membership and authors in 38 political science journals. While other studies have discussed gender across APSA member sections (Reid and Curry 2019) or authors in a much smaller subset of journals (Dion, Sumner, and Mitchell 2018;Teele and Thelen 2017), we also compare the gender distribution of authors to those of journal sponsor organizations, illustrating the size of the gendered publication gap across a large number of research fields within political science.…”