Economic Growth and the Feminisation of Political Science in Kazakhstan: A Leaky Pipeline?

2013 ◽

Vol 46 (02) ◽

pp. 355-369 ◽

Cited By ~ 30

Author(s):

Sara McLaughlin Mitchell ◽

Vicki L. Hesli

Keyword(s):

Political Science ◽

Department Chair ◽

Academic Profession ◽

Academic Programs ◽

Conventional Wisdom ◽

The Political ◽

Female Faculty ◽

Research Support ◽

Leaky Pipeline ◽

Male Faculty

AbstractThis article examines the dual problems of “women don't ask” and “women don't say no” in the academic profession. First, we consider whether female faculty bargain more or less frequently than male faculty about such resources as salary, research support, clerical support, moving expenses, and spousal accommodation. Analyzing a 2009 APSA survey, we find that women aremorelikely to ask for resources than men when considering most categories of bargaining issues. This finding goes against conventional wisdom in the literature on gender and bargaining that suggests that women are less likely to bargain than men. Second, we seek to understand if women are reluctant to say no when asked to provide service at the department, college, university, or disciplinary levels. We find that women are asked to provide more service and that they agree to serve more frequently than men. We also find that the service women provide is more typically “token” service, as women are less likely to be asked by their colleagues to serve as department chair, to chair committees, or to lead academic programs. The implications of these results for the leaky pipeline in the academic profession are discussed.

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Response to “Diagnosing the Leaky Pipeline”

Political Science and Politics ◽

10.1017/s1049096508230908 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 41 (03) ◽

pp. 474

Author(s):

Lawrence Saez

Keyword(s):

Political Science ◽

Graduate School ◽

Personal Experience ◽

Ethnic Background ◽

Institutional Racism ◽

Academic Institutions ◽

January Issue ◽

Leaky Pipeline ◽

The Uk ◽

American Academic

Reading the results of Lavariega-Monforti and Michelson's study of Latinas and Latinos in the profession in the January issue (“Diagnosing the Leaky Pipeline: Continuing Barriers to the Retention of Latinas and Latinos in Political Science”) made for depressing reading. Sadly, their observations are deadly accurate on the experiences of endemic institutional racism that Latino and Latina political scientists face in American academic institutions. This culture of endemic racism was vibrant in graduate school while I was getting my Ph.D. and appears to have changed little since then. For that reason I am very pessimistic that this situation will change in my generation and, frankly, the APSA has been very slow to act on this problem. In my personal experience, in British universities I have been evaluated on my merits, rather than on my ethnic background. I would urge other Latino and Latina political scientists to consider using their skills in the UK and elsewhere.

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Gender Gaps in Perceptions of Political Science Journals

Political Science and Politics ◽

10.1017/s1049096519001227 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 53 (1) ◽

pp. 114-121 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

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.

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Gender, Race, Age, and National Origin Predict Whether Faculty Assign Female-Authored Readings in Graduate Syllabi

Political Science and Politics ◽

10.1017/s1049096519001239 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 53 (1) ◽

pp. 100-106

Author(s):

Amy Erica Smith ◽

Heidi Hardt ◽

Philippe Meister ◽

Hannah June Kim

Keyword(s):

Political Science ◽

White Male ◽

Individual Characteristics ◽

Academic Careers ◽

People Of Color ◽

National Origin ◽

Gender And Age ◽

Leaky Pipeline ◽

The Impact ◽

Phd Programs

ABSTRACTNumerous studies document female scholars’ underrepresentation in political science publications and citations, yet few examine graduate syllabi. In this study, we assess the impact of instructors’ individual characteristics (i.e., race, gender, and age) on which readings they assign. We use what is—to our knowledge—the largest dataset of graduate readings to date: the GRaduate Assignments DataSet (GRADS), with 75,601 readings from 840 syllabi in 94 US PhD programs. We report several findings. First, overall, instructors infrequently assign female-authored scholarship relative to the rates at which women publish. Second, instructors who are women, people of color, and those from more gender-equal countries assign significantly more female-authored readings than white male instructors and those from less gender-equal countries. Third, among women—but not men—older instructors assign more female-authored work. We suggest that women’s underrepresentation on syllabi may contribute to “the leaky pipeline,” which describes women’s attrition from academic careers.

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12. Global Growth, Inequality, and Poverty: The Globalization Argument and the ‘Political’ Science of Economics

Global Political Economy ◽

10.1093/hepl/9780198737469.003.0012 ◽

2016 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Robert Hunter Wade

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

At Risk ◽

Income Inequality ◽

Political Science ◽

Professional Ethics ◽

The Political ◽

Past Century ◽

Global Level ◽

The Past ◽

Global Growth

This chapter examines the globalization argument, which warns that mutual benefits will be at risk if countries start to backslide on market liberalization. It begins with a discussion of trends in globalization over the past century, and the kind of evidence provided by mainstream economists to support the globalization argument. It then considers global-level trends in economic growth, income inequality, and poverty over the past few decades. It also explains why the consensus among economists about the virtues of globalization has been so resilient. It concludes by outlining some challenges for economists, especially in the field of professional ethics. The chapter argues that the evidence for the globalization argument is not as robust as the policy mainstream presumes.

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Development

Political Concepts ◽

10.5422/fordham/9780823276684.003.0007 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Political Science ◽

Subject Formation ◽

Political Concept

This chapter raises the question of why “development” is a political concept. It asks us to allow the concept of development to overflow the interplay of capital and colony. This makes room for an acknowledgment of complicity—folded-togetherness—rather than see “development” to be conceptualized as good or evil or both after colonialism. It asks us to see that development as sustainable underdevelopment has a longer history and perhaps even that this history is beginning to make itself visible as the pattern of globalization explodes economic growth into developing inequality. It suggests that the conceptualization of development must be unevenly interdisciplinary—statistics and political science folded together, complicit—with the disciplines of subject-formation, the humanities.

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You Research Like a Girl: Gendered Research Agendas and Their Implications

Political Science and Politics ◽

10.1017/s1049096519000945 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 52 (4) ◽

pp. 663-668 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Ellen M. Key ◽

Jane Lawrence Sumner

Keyword(s):

Political Science ◽

Recent Work ◽

Research Topic ◽

Leaky Pipeline ◽

Research Agendas ◽

Political Science Journals

ABSTRACTPolitical science, like many disciplines, has a “leaky-pipeline” problem. Women are more likely to leave the profession than men. Those who stay are promoted at lower rates. Recent work has pointed toward a likely culprit: women are less likely to submit work to journals. Why? One answer is that women do not believe their work will be published. This article asks whether women systematically study different topics than men and whether these topics may be less likely to appear in top political science journals. To answer this question, we analyzed the content of dissertation abstracts. We found evidence that some topics are indeed gendered. We also found differences in the representation of “women’s” and “men’s” topics in the pages of the top journals. This suggests that research agendas may indeed be gendered and that variation in research topic might be to blame for the submission gap.

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