Journeys in World Politics: A Mentoring Workshop for Junior Women Studying International Relations

世界政治之旅：为学习国际关系的年轻女性举办的辅导研讨会

• 批准号: 0647740
• 负责人: Kelly Kadera
• 金额: $ 7.85万
• 依托单位: University of Iowa
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-04-15 至 2014-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0647740&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Journeys; World; Politics; Mentoring; Workshop

The Journeys in World Politics workshops provide mentoring for young female political scientists in the area of international relations. The three-day workshops include research presentations by junior scholars and extensive feedback from discussants, oral autobiographies by senior scholars, and career and gender discussion sessions (e.g., networking, balancing family and work, women in the classroom, negotiations). The motivation for the workshops stems from research showing the benefits of mentoring, especially for women in political science and academia more broadly. A variety of studies have evaluated the status of women in political science over the past 30 years. Several indicators -- differences in salaries, differences in publication rates in the top political science journals, differences in publication rates in books and edited volumes, differences in placement at research versus teaching institutions, differences in satisfaction with graduate school training, and increasing attrition rates for female scholars at all academic levels -- reveal a significant gender gap in the field. While recent studies show some decline in this gender gap, the under-representation of female scholars at top research institutions and high rank levels is still highly problematic. Proactive solutions to these structural problems have been evaluated, and active mentoring and the creation of friendly and nurturing academic environments are among the most promising avenues for change. Factors that promote job success for male graduate students in political science, such as the rank of PhD program or adequate job placement services, do not have an apparent effect upon the success rate of female graduate students on the job market. In fact, the only significant predictor for a female candidate is a healthy mentoring relationship with an academic advisor. The Journeys in World Politics program applies this knowledge by providing mentoring and networking opportunities for young female scholars. In particular, this project implements recommendations of the American Political Science Association's 2004 workshop on women's advancement in political science, which was also funding by NSF. In essence, the workshops broaden the benefits of and opportunities for mentoring for female PhD success beyond their home departments. The PIs will also collect more systematic data to evaluate the impact of mentoring programs on long-term success rates (e.g., time to completion of PhD, number of publications, employment in academia, tenure) for female PhD candidates in political science.Diversity is an important issue in the academic community. This project is proactive in its efforts to improve diversity and in its efforts to track the success of these efforts. It focuses on an area of political science research, the study of international relations, that has been male-dominated historically; although, the success of the proposed mentoring program can be generalized to implications for efforts to advance gender and racial diversity in political science and other academic disciplines.

世界政治之旅讲习班为国际关系领域的年轻女性政治学家提供指导。为期三天的研讨会包括初级学者的研究报告和讨论者的广泛反馈，高级学者的口头自传，以及职业和性别讨论会议(例如，网络、平衡家庭和工作、课堂上的女性、谈判)。这些研讨会的动机来自一项研究，该研究显示了指导的好处，特别是对政治学和更广泛的学术界的女性来说。在过去的30年里，各种研究评估了女性在政治学中的地位。若干指标--工资差异、顶级政治学期刊的发表率差异、书籍和编辑卷的发表率差异、研究机构与教学机构的安置差异、对研究生院培训的满意度差异以及所有学术级别的女学者不断增加的流失率--显示了该领域的显著性别差距。虽然最近的研究表明，这种性别差距有所缩小，但女性学者在顶级研究机构和高级别的代表性不足仍然是个很大的问题。对这些结构性问题的主动解决方案进行了评估，积极的指导和创造友好和有益的学术环境是最有希望的变革途径之一。促进男性政治学研究生就业成功的因素，如博士学位的排名或足够的就业安置服务，对女性研究生在就业市场上的成功率没有明显的影响。事实上，对女性候选人来说，唯一重要的预测因素是与学术顾问的健康指导关系。世界政治之旅项目通过为年轻女性学者提供指导和网络机会来应用这一知识。特别是，该项目落实了美国政治学协会2004年关于提高妇女在政治学中地位的研讨会的建议，该研讨会也是由国家科学基金会资助的。从本质上讲，这些讲习班扩大了女性博士成功辅导的好处和机会，使之超越了她们所在的部门。PIs还将收集更系统的数据，以评估指导计划对政治学女性博士候选人的长期成功率(例如，完成博士学位的时间、发表的出版物数量、在学术界的就业情况、终身教职)的影响。该项目积极主动地努力改善多样性，并努力跟踪这些努力的成功情况。它专注于政治学研究的一个领域，即国际关系研究，历史上一直由男性主导；不过，拟议中的指导计划的成功可以概括为对推动政治学和其他学术学科的性别和种族多样性的努力的影响。