scholarly journals Explaining Gender in the Journals: How Submission Practices Affect Publication Patterns in Political Science

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul A. Djupe ◽  
Amy Erica Smith ◽  
Anand Edward Sokhey
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Publication Rates ◽  
Publication Patterns ◽  
Original Survey ◽  
Political Science Journals ◽  
Selection Of

ABSTRACTIn recent work, Teele and Thelen (2017) documented the underrepresentation of female-authored scholarship in a broad selection of political science journals. To better understand these patterns, we present the results of an original, individual-level survey of political scientists conducted in the spring of 2017. Confirming Teele and Thelen’s speculation, our evidence indicates that differences in submission rates underlie the gender gap in publication—a pattern particularly pronounced for the discipline’s “top three” journals. Leveraging original survey items, we pursue explanations of the submission gap, finding that both methodological specialization and attitudes toward publication strategies play roles. Importantly, we also conclude that men and women obtain differential returns on their investments in coauthorship: although male and female respondents report identical propensities to coauthor, coauthorship boosts submission and publication rates more strongly for men than women. We discuss the implications of our findings for ongoing conversations about inequality in political science.

scholarly journals Gender in the Journals: Publication Patterns in Political Science

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (02) ◽  
pp. 433-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawn Langan Teele ◽  
Kathleen Thelen
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Female Authors ◽  
Publication Rates ◽  
Publication Patterns ◽  
Qualitative Work ◽  
Underrepresentation Of Women ◽  
Political Science Journals

ABSTRACT This article explores publication patterns across 10 prominent political science journals, documenting a significant gender gap in publication rates for men and women. We present three broad findings. First, we find no evidence that the low percentage of female authors simply mirrors an overall low share of women in the profession. Instead, we find continued underrepresentation of women in many of the discipline’s top journals. Second, we find that women are not benefiting equally in a broad trend across the discipline toward coauthorship. Most published collaborative research in these journals emerges from all-male teams. Third, it appears that the methodological proclivities of the top journals do not fully reflect the kind of work that female scholars are more likely than men to publish in these journals. The underrepresentation of qualitative work in many journals is associated as well with an underrepresentation of female authors.

scholarly journals Peer review and gender bias: A study on 145 scholarly journals

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. eabd0299
Author(s):  
Flaminio Squazzoni ◽  
Giangiacomo Bravo ◽  
Mike Farjam ◽  
Ana Marusic ◽  
Bahar Mehmani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Publication Rates ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Editorial Decisions ◽  
Selection Of

Scholarly journals are often blamed for a gender gap in publication rates, but it is unclear whether peer review and editorial processes contribute to it. This article examines gender bias in peer review with data for 145 journals in various fields of research, including about 1.7 million authors and 740,000 referees. We reconstructed three possible sources of bias, i.e., the editorial selection of referees, referee recommendations, and editorial decisions, and examined all their possible relationships. Results showed that manuscripts written by women as solo authors or coauthored by women were treated even more favorably by referees and editors. Although there were some differences between fields of research, our findings suggest that peer review and editorial processes do not penalize manuscripts by women. However, increasing gender diversity in editorial teams and referee pools could help journals inform potential authors about their attention to these factors and so stimulate participation by women.

scholarly journals KESADARAN GENDER YANG ISLAMI

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 253
Author(s):  
Nurdeni Dahri
Keyword(s):  
Gender Bias ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Changing Times ◽  
Biological Differences

Biological differences between men and women have in the implementation of social and cultural life. There has been a gender gap due to the multiplicity of interpretations of the notion of gender itself. In-depth research is needed to determine the cause of the gap, let alone Islam declared the doctrine that leads to gender bias. Based on the discussion in this paper is declared Gender division of roles and responsibilities between women and men as a result of socio-cultural construction of society, which can be changed according to the demands of the changing times. While sex (gender: male and female) are not changed and the nature of God. In the teachings of Islam there is no difference between women and men in all its aspects, distinguishing only charity and piety

A Spatial Analysis of Male and Female Unemployment in the USA

2015 ◽  
pp. 1797-1809
Author(s):  
Edmund J. Zolnik
Keyword(s):  
Multilevel Models ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Right To Work ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The U.S

An analysis of male and female unemployment in the U.S. explores how gender affects spatial variation in unemployment. The effects of spatially-unlagged and spatially-lagged unemployment rates on the likelihood that individual men and women are unemployed are also explored. Using a recent tabulation of microdata from the American Community Survey, multilevel models of male and female unemployment are fit. Results indicate that age and occupation at the individual-level and a right-to-work dummy at the PUMA-level are the variables that best distinguish unemployed men and women. Results also indicate that unemployment for men is more clustered in space than unemployment for women. Finally, results indicate that the vast majority of the variation in unemployment for individuals in the U.S. is attributable to the personal characteristics of unemployed men and women, not the locational characteristics of high-unemployment places. The paper concludes with a discussion of the policy implications of the latter result.

Is the “Presidential Image” Reserved for Males? Sex-Role Stereotypes and the 1984 Presidential Election

1987 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 491-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary N. Powell ◽  
D. Anthony Butterfield
Keyword(s):  
Gender Gap ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Ronald Reagan ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
George Bush ◽  
Sex Role Stereotypes ◽  
Geraldine Ferraro ◽  
Selection Of

With the selection of Geraldine Ferraro as a vice presidential candidate and the emergence of the “gender gap” issue in the campaign, the 1984 U.S. presidential election provided a unique opportunity for assessment of the effect of gender on preferences for presidential leadership and perceptions of candidates. 277 college students ( Mdn age: 20 yr.) described a Good President, Good Vice-president, Ronald Reagan, Walter Mondale, George Bush, or Ferraro on the revised Bern Sex-role Inventory shortly before the election. The Good President, Good Vice-president, and all candidates except Mondale were seen as more masculine than feminine. In that Reagan was seen as higher in masculinity and lower in femininity than Mondale, results were confirmed by the outcome of the election. However, Ferraro was the only candidate who fitted the Good President profile in both masculinity and femininity. Men and women differed in their perceptions of Reagan and Mondale, supporting the gender-gap hypothesis.

scholarly journals Gender Gaps in Perceptions of Political Science Journals

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadia E. Brown ◽  
Yusaku Horiuchi ◽  
Mala Htun ◽  
David Samuels
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
Review Process ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
American Political Science Association ◽  
Leaky Pipeline ◽  
Original Survey ◽  
American Political Science ◽  
Science Association ◽  
Political Science Journals

ABSTRACTThe 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.

scholarly journals Gen Z, Gender, and COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 1019-1027
Author(s):  
Melissa Deckman ◽  
Jared McDonald ◽  
Stella Rouse ◽  
Mileah Kromer
Keyword(s):  
Gender Gap ◽  
Statistical Models ◽  
Young Male ◽  
Vote Choice ◽  
Personal Health ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Financial Situation ◽  
Generation Z ◽  
The Impact

AbstractUsing a national survey of Generation Z conducted in late May 2020, we measure attitudes about the impact of the coronavirus on personal health, financial and job concerns, views about shelter-in-place laws, and 2020 voting intentions. Gen Z women express greater health and economic concerns and support for shelter-in-place measures than their male counterparts, but this gender gap is largely mitigated by party and other covariates. Party also mediates the differences between young male and female voters concerning the influence of the coronavirus on their vote choice in 2020. Notably, women have significantly greater concern about the impact of COVID-19 on their personal financial situation, while Gen Z men express more concern about their personal health amid COVID-19 in more fully specified statistical models. This research contributes to the growing literature that examines not only the sorting effect of party on the gender gap but also how different identities—in this case, generation—can help explain the persistent political divides between men and women.

scholarly journals What explains the gender gap in wealth? Evidence from administrative data

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaanika Meriküll ◽  
Merike Kukk ◽  
Tairi Rõõm
Keyword(s):  
Administrative Data ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Wealth Distribution ◽  
Household Finance ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Asset Class ◽  
Consumption Survey

AbstractThis paper studies the gender gap in net wealth. We use administrative data on wealth that are linked to the Estonian Household Finance and Consumption Survey, which provides individual-level wealth data for all household types. The unconditional gender gap in mean wealth is 45%, but this sizeable gap in means originates mainly from the top tail of the distribution, where men have much more wealth than women, while the gender differences in wealth are statistically insignificant in most of the lower wealth quintiles. At the top of the distribution the differences in wealth can be explained by larger self-employment activity of men. Men have more business wealth than women do, and the gender wealth gap is the largest for this asset class. The gender wealth gaps across different household types are very heterogeneous. The unconditional gaps in wealth are strongly in favour of men throughout most of the wealth distribution for married couples. For single-member households, on the other hand, the raw gaps are in favour of women in the lower half of the wealth distribution. These raw gaps in opposite directions can mostly be explained by differences in the observed characteristics of men and women among married couples vs single people.

scholarly journals Decomposing Gender Differences in Bankcard Credit Limits

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (072) ◽  
pp. 1-63
Author(s):  
Nathan Blascak ◽  
◽  
Anna Tranfaglia ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Credit Score ◽  
Quantile Decomposition ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Over Time

In this paper, we examine if there are gender differences in total bankcard limits by utilizing a data set that links mortgage applicant information with individual-level credit bureau data from 2006 to 2016. We document that after controlling for credit score, income, and demographic characteristics, male borrowers on average have higher total bankcard limits than female borrowers. Using a standard Kitagawa-Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, we find that 87 percent of the gap is explained by differences in the effect of observed characteristics between male and female borrowers, while approximately 10 percent of the difference can be explained by differences in the levels of observed characteristics. Using a quantile decomposition strategy to analyze the gender gap along the entire bankcard credit limit distribution, we show that gender differences in bankcard limits favor female borrowers at smaller limits and favor male borrowers at larger limits. The primary factors that drive this gap have changed over time and vary across the distribution of credit limits.

scholarly journals Engaging Women: Addressing the Gender Gap in Women’s Networking and Productivity

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (02) ◽  
pp. 461-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiffany D. Barnes ◽  
Emily Beaulieu
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Political Methodology ◽  
Group Settings ◽  
National Science ◽  
Original Survey

ABSTRACT Women earn 40% of new PhDs in political science; however, once they enter the profession, they have strikingly different experiences than their male counterparts—particularly in the small but influential field of political methodology. For several years, the Society for Political Methodology, with support from the National Science Foundation, has attempted to address this gender gap through the Visions in Methodology (VIM) program. VIM features an annual conference that brings women together to present and discuss their research and to participate in professional-development sessions. Do programs like VIM have the desired impact? Using an original survey of political scientists, this study provides insights into the ways that bringing women together in small-group settings like VIM might facilitate networking and enhance productivity. In particular, the study finds that women who attend the VIM conference are better networked and more productive in terms of publication.

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