Gender in the Journals: Publication Patterns in Political Science

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...

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Published inPS, political science & politics Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 433 - 447
Main Authors Teele, Dawn Langan, Thelen, Kathleen
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, USA Cambridge University Press 01.04.2017
Subjects
Academic publications
Disproportionate Representation
Faculty Promotion
Females
Graduate Students
Intellectuals
International Organizations
Occupational Mobility
Periodicals
Political science
Productivity
Qualitative research
Scholarly publishing
Teams
Tenure
The Profession
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1049-0965
1537-5935
DOI:10.1017/S1049096516002985