Gender Representation in the American Politics Canon: An Analysis of Core Graduate Syllabi

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (03) ◽  
pp. 635-640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean M. Diament ◽  
Adam J. Howat ◽  
Matthew J. Lacombe
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
American Politics ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Introductory Courses ◽  
Underrepresented Groups ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Graduate Seminars ◽  
Basic Level ◽  
Unique Dataset

ABSTRACTCore graduate-level seminars, in many ways, establish the “canon” literature for scholars entering a discipline. In the study of American Politics, the contents of this canon vary widely across departments and instructors, with important implications for the perspectives to which graduate students are exposed. At a basic level, the demographic characteristics of the authors whose work is assigned can have a major impact on the diversity (or lack of diversity) of viewpoints presented in these introductory courses. Using a unique dataset derived from a survey of core American Politics graduate seminars at highly-ranked universities, this project assesses the gender diversity of the authors whose research is currently taught—overall and within a comprehensive list of topics and subtopics. We also assess the “substantive representation” of women (and other underrepresented groups) within the American Politics canon by examining the frequency with which gender, racial, and other forms of identity politics are taught in these introductory courses.

scholarly journals Strategies to improve equity in faculty hiring

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (22) ◽  
pp. 2744-2749 ◽  
Author(s):  
Needhi Bhalla
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Academic Science ◽  
Research Institutions ◽  
Concomitant Increase ◽  
Faculty Hiring ◽  
Underrepresented Groups ◽  
And Gender

Through targeted recruitment and interventions to support their success during training, the fraction of trainees (graduate students and postdoctoral fellows) in academic science from historically underrepresented groups has steadily increased. However, this trend has not translated to a concomitant increase in the number of faculty from these underrepresented groups. Here, I focus on proven strategies that departments and research institutions can develop to increase equity in faculty hiring and promotion to address the lack of racial and gender diversity among their faculty.

Graduate Students' Perceptions of Ethnic and Gender Diversity

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Zarb ◽  
Ryan F. Birch ◽  
David Gleave ◽  
Winston Seegobin ◽  
Joel Perez
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
And Gender

Do Women Perceive Organizational Culture Differently From Men?

2018 ◽  
pp. 253-271
Author(s):  
Richa Vij
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Intervention Strategy ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Women Employees ◽  
Female Employees ◽  
Women In The Workforce

With the increasing proportion of women in the workforce, need for effective management of gender-diversity is being felt. While much of the effort in gender-diversity management has been on representation of women in the decision-making bodies and processes, the most fundamental diversity issue for the organization remains practically untouched. Organizational culture has long been shaped and dominated by male orientations and therefore focus on change in the organizational culture can help in addressing the issue of discrimination and isolation of women in organizations. Any intervention strategy in this regard would require understanding of the attributes of organizational culture that give the feeling of discrimination to women employees resulting in their isolation from the mainstream, thereby hampering their performance. The present chapter aims at identifying the attributes of organizational culture in respect of which the perceptions of female employees differ significantly from those of male employees in State Bank of India.

Effective Teaching Practices to Foster Vibrant Communities of Inquiry in Synchronous Online Learning

2013 ◽  
pp. 84-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annie Saint-Jacques
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Community Of Inquiry ◽  
Doctoral Study ◽  
Asynchronous Online Learning ◽  
Graduate Seminars ◽  
Ongoing Dialogue ◽  
Synchronous Online Learning ◽  
Synchronous Online

For the past decade, the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework has been validated and applied to asynchronous online learning. This chapter proposes to explore its innovative application to synchronous online learning which has to date received little attention in the literature. This chapter reports on effective ways to engage graduate students attending virtual seminars in real time, based on the findings of a qualitative doctoral study that took place in five Francophone and Anglophone North American universities. The crucial role of the faculty member as the facilitator of a rich and ongoing dialogue in the classroom has yet to be identified with, and embraced by faculty, but students are generally satisfied with their virtual graduate seminars.

Gender Diversity in the Senior Management of Large Technology Companies

2022 ◽  
pp. 1945-1962
Author(s):  
Yakira Fernández-Torres ◽  
Ricardo Javier Palomo-Zurdo ◽  
Milagros Gutiérrez-Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Boards Of Directors ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Female Representation ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
The Relationship

As a key part of the fourth industrial revolution, technology companies have become the most valuable companies in the world in terms of market capitalization. Surprisingly, however, these companies have been overlooked by studies of gender diversity in corporate governance even though their highly distinctive features may cause major differences in gender diversity with respect to companies in other sectors. The goal of this chapter is therefore to provide the first characterization of gender diversity in the corporate governance of large technology companies—specifically those with the highest market value—and explore the relationship between gender diversity and business performance. To achieve this goal, descriptive statistical analysis is used. Data correspond to the period 2005 to 2017. The findings confirm the under-representation of women on the boards of directors of 162 publicly listed companies. The findings also show that the most profitable companies are those that have the greatest female representation on their boards of directors.

Muslim American Politics and the Future of US Democracy

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward E. Curtis IV
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Military Service ◽  
American Politics ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Body ◽  
Muslim Americans ◽  
Muslim American ◽  
The Future

The future of US democracy depends on the question of whether Muslim Americans can become full social and political citizens. Though many Muslims have worked toward full assimilation since the 1950s, it has mattered little whether they have expressed dissent or supported the political status quo. Their efforts to assimilate have been futile because the liberal terms under which they have negotiated their citizenship have simultaneously alienated Muslims from the body politic. Focusing on both electoral and grassroots Muslim political participation, this book reveals Muslim challenges to and accommodation of liberalism from the Cold War to the war on terror. It shows how the Nation of Islam both resisted and made use of postwar liberalism, and then how Malcolm X sought a political alternative in his Islamic ethics of liberation. The book charts the changing Muslim American politics of the late twentieth century, examining how Muslim Americans fashioned their political participation in response to a form of US nationalism tied to war-making against Muslims abroad. The book analyzes the everyday resistance of Muslim American women to an American identity politics that put their bodies at the center of US public life and it assesses the attempts of Muslim Americans to find acceptance through military service. It concludes with an examination of the role of Muslim American dissent in the contemporary politics of the United States.

scholarly journals Minorities and Women in the Pacific Sociological Association Region

1986 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Kulis ◽  
Karen A. Miller ◽  
Morris Axelrod ◽  
Leonard Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Minority Students ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Minority Faculty ◽  
Pacific Sociological Association ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Sociology Departments

Based on a five-year follow-up survey of sociology departments in the Pacific Sociological Association region, we report trends in the representation of women and minorities among faculty members and graduate students. Although men continue to predominate at all but the lecturer/instructor level, women are increasingly represented on faculties overall, in tenured positions, and among the higher academic ranks. Proportionally fewer men and women are now in entry level positions than in 1979. Except for Asians, minority faculty continue to be poorly represented. Women now make up the majority of graduate students at both the masters and doctoral levels, but both the proportion and number of minority students have declined in five years. Still, despite sharply contracting enrollment, both women and minority graduate students receive a larger share of financial assistance awards than they did five years ago.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Diversitas Gender Terhadap Pengungkapan Sustainability Development Goals

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Dessy Noor Farida
Keyword(s):  
Board Of Directors ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
Development Goals

Public awareness of the environment will be increasingly damaged due to industrial activities of large companies, making the community need information about the extent to which the company is responsible for the damage. This ecological crisis is driving concern from various countries in the world by formulating a Sustainability Development Goals that are expected to improve the quality of human life. Representation of women in the leadership of a company can be one of the drivers of companies to be more concerned with voluntary disclosures. This research is a quantitative research that uses multiple linear regression with a sample of companies listed on the ISSI for 4 consecutive years. The results showed that the presence of women on the board of directors did not affect the disclosure of SDGs. Whereas the presence of women in the board of commissioners has a significant effect on the disclosure of SDGs. The influential control variables are only the size of the company, while the variables of profitability and leverage have no effect.Keywords: Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs), Board of Directors, Board of Commissioners, Gender Diversity

scholarly journals Representation of Women and Underrepresented Groups in US Academic Medicine by Specialty

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
pp. e2123512
Author(s):  
Alexander Yoo ◽  
Benjamin P. George ◽  
Peggy Auinger ◽  
Emma Strawderman ◽  
David A. Paul
Keyword(s):  
Academic Medicine ◽  
Underrepresented Groups ◽  
Representation Of Women

The Legacy of Rush Limbaugh Will Always Be Tied to Donald Trump

The Forum ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 439-458
Author(s):  
Ian Reifowitz
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
American Politics ◽  
Terrorist Attack ◽  
Popular Vote ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
President Obama ◽  
White House ◽  
Essential Question ◽  
Black President ◽  
Conservative Media

Abstract This article explores Rush Limbaugh’s efforts to tribalize American politics through his racially divisive, falsehood-ridden portrayal of President Obama. By playing and preying on white anxiety, the host laid the groundwork for the election of a president who essentially adopted his view of the Obama presidency. Limbaugh’s rhetoric about Obama serves as a case study whereby the most influential part of the conservative media during those years represents the whole. “How did we get here?” is the essential question right now in American politics. How did we go from a society that relatively easily elected Barack Obama twice to one that, popular vote loss aside, elected Donald Trump, and came within a small popular vote shift in three states from doing so again in 2020? Analyzing how Limbaugh ginned up white racial anxiety about a Black president helps us understand the rise of Trump, who began his White House campaign by serving as the nation’s birther-in-chief and who, in his reaction to the white nationalist terrorist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, to name just one example, demonstrated his reliance on white identity politics. As Jamelle Bouie wrote: “You can draw a direct line to the rise of Trump from the racial hysteria of talk radio—where Rush Limbaugh, a Trump booster, warned that Obama would turn the world upside down.”

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