TY - JOUR
T1 - You Research Like a Girl
T2 - Gendered Research Agendas and Their Implications
AU - Key, Ellen M.
AU - Sumner, Jane Lawrence
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © American Political Science Association 2019.
PY - 2019/10/1
Y1 - 2019/10/1
N2 - Political 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.
AB - Political 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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U2 - 10.1017/S1049096519000945
DO - 10.1017/S1049096519000945
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85068639229
SN - 1049-0965
VL - 52
SP - 663
EP - 668
JO - PS - Political Science and Politics
JF - PS - Political Science and Politics
IS - 4
ER -