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

多样性是学术界的一个重要问题。“世界政治之旅”项目旨在加强历史上一直以男性为主导的政治科学研究领域的性别多样性，即国际关系研究，尽管“世界政治之旅”指导计划的成功可以推广到其他项目中，以促进政治科学和其他学科的性别和种族多样性。世界政治之旅研讨会为年轻的女性政治学家提供指导。为期三天的研讨会支持18-20名参与者，包括初级学者的研究报告和讨论者的反馈，高级学者的口头自传，以及职业和性别讨论会议，涉及的主题包括人际关系、平衡家庭和工作、薪资谈判和课堂上的性别问题。该项目为女性学者提供积极的指导，并将讲习班参与者与更广泛的学术界女性网络联系起来。我们的项目通过一系列后续调查和参与者与其学术同龄人的比较来跟踪参与者的成功。在过去的30年里，许多研究评估了女性在政治学中的地位。一些指标——薪酬差异、顶级政治学期刊发表率差异、书籍和编辑卷发表率差异、在研究机构和教学机构的位置差异、对研究生院培训的满意度差异、学术引用的差异，以及所有学术水平的女性学者不断增加的流失率——都证明了该领域存在显著的性别差距。虽然最近的研究表明这种性别差距有所下降，但女性学者在顶级研究机构和高级职位上的代表性不足是一个问题。对这些结构性问题的主动解决方案已经进行了评估，其中最有希望的改变途径是积极的指导和创造友好和培育的学术环境。“世界政治之旅”项目运用这些知识，为年轻的女学者提供指导和网络，创造机会指导她们所在院系以外的女博士。该项目还允许收集更系统的数据，以评估指导项目对女性政治科学家长期成功率的影响。国家科学基金会的资金将用于支持讲习班的费用，通过调查研究和收集结果评估数据来跟踪指导计划的成功，支持对旅行讲习班的正式评估，支持关于旅行计划的出版物，并建立更广泛的妇女政治科学网络。

Diversity is an important issue in academic communities. The Journeys in World Politics project seeks to enhance gender diversity in an area of political science research that has been male-dominated historically, the study of international relations, although the success of the Journeys mentoring program can be generalized to other projects to advance gender and racial diversity in political science and other academic disciplines. The Journeys in World Politics workshops provide mentoring for young female Political Scientists. The three day workshops support 18-20 participants and include research presentations by junior scholars and feedback from discussants, oral autobiographies by senior scholars, and career and gender discussion sessions involving topics such as networking, balancing family and work, negotiating salary, and gender issues in the classroom. The project provides active mentoring for female scholars and connects the workshop participants to broader networks of women in academia. Our project tracks the success of participants through a series of follow up surveys and comparisons of participants to their academic peer groups. Many 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, differences in scholarly citations, and increasing attrition rates for female scholars at all academic levels - evidence 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 problematic. Proactive solutions to these structural problems have been evaluated and among the most promising avenues for change are active mentoring and the creation of friendly and nurturing academic environments. The Journeys in World Politics program applies this knowledge by providing mentoring and networking for young female scholars, creating opportunities to mentor female PhDs outside their home departments. The program also allows for collection of more systematic data to evaluate the impact of mentoring programs on long-term success rates for female political scientists. NSF Funds will be used to support the costs of the workshops, to track the success of the mentoring program through survey research and collection of outcomes assessment data, to support a formal evaluation of the Journeys workshops, to support publications on the Journeys program, and to build networks of women in political science more broadly.