SBP: Gender Representation in Political Science Graduate Training

SBP：政治学研究生培训中的性别代表性

• 批准号: 1624093
• 负责人: Amy Smith
• 金额: $ 4.32万
• 依托单位: Iowa State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1624093&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBP; Gender; Representation; Political; Science

General SummaryArticles and books authored by female scholars remain underrepresented in the syllabi of graduate coursework despite an increase in women's participation in the sciences. In political science, recent studies have demonstrated that scholars cite women less frequently than men in publications. Citations matter because they shape hiring and promotion decisions. Given that the citation gap may begin in graduate coursework, the PIs investigate gender representation in the domain of graduate training. What graduate students are required to read shapes their understanding of who are the leading scholars and what scholarship is considered important. By increasing public awareness of women's representation in graduate training, this project will lead to more scholars considering gender diversity as they prepare their syllabi. The project will produce a database and software that scholars can use to diversify their syllabi. The project aims to have a long-term impact on gender equality in the sciences. Increasing understanding of women scholars' representation in graduate training cultivates an inclusive science and engineering workforce. Technical SummaryThis project will investigate the representation of male and female scholars in the training of political science doctoral students. Graduate syllabi and comprehensive exam reading lists will be collected in order to establish an original, publicly-available database of works assigned to political science doctoral students from across the subfields of political science. The database will be used to examine two questions: (1) To what extent are female scholars represented in assigned works? (2) What factors affect variation in gender representation in the works that faculty and graduate programs assign?. Factors hypothesized to affect rates of assigning female authors include instructor gender, age, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, academic rank and years in the profession. The project will also produce free, open-source software to convert syllabi text into a CSV formatted list and to code the genders of authors.

尽管妇女在科学领域的参与有所增加，但女学者撰写的文章和书籍在研究生课程大纲中的比例仍然偏低。在政治学方面，最近的研究表明，学者在出版物中引用妇女的频率低于男性。引用很重要，因为它们会影响招聘和晋升的决定。鉴于引用差距可能开始在研究生课程，PI调查性别代表性领域的研究生培训。研究生需要阅读什么样的书，这决定了他们对谁是主要学者以及什么样的奖学金是重要的理解。通过提高公众对妇女在研究生培训中的代表性的认识，该项目将促使更多的学者在编写教学大纲时考虑到性别多样性。该项目将产生一个数据库和软件，学者们可以用它来使他们的教学大纲多样化。该项目旨在对科学领域的性别平等产生长期影响。越来越多地了解女学者在研究生培训中的代表性，培养了一支包容性的科学和工程队伍。本项目将调查男女学者在政治学博士生培训中的代表性。研究生教学大纲和综合考试阅读清单将被收集，以建立一个原始的，公开的数据库分配给政治学博士生的作品从整个政治学的子领域。本研究将探讨两个问题：（1）女性学者在指定作品中的代表性有多大？(2)哪些因素影响教师和研究生课程分配的作品中性别代表性的变化？假设影响分配女性作者的因素包括教师性别、年龄、种族/民族、国籍、性取向、学术级别和从业年限。该项目还将制作免费的开源软件，将教学大纲文本转换为CSV格式的列表，并对作者的性别进行编码。