SBP: Gender Representation in Political Science Graduate Training

尽管女性对科学的参与有所增加，但女性学者撰写的文章和书籍在研究生课程的教学大纲中仍然代表性不足。在政治学领域，最近的研究表明，学者们在出版物中引用女性的频率低于引用男性的频率。引用很重要，因为它们会影响招聘和晋升的决定。鉴于引文差距可能从研究生课程开始，pi调查了研究生培训领域的性别代表性。研究生被要求阅读的内容决定了他们对谁是顶尖学者以及什么样的学术被认为是重要的理解。通过提高公众对妇女在研究生培训中的代表性的认识，该项目将使更多的学者在编制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，学者们可以用它来丰富他们的教学大纲。该项目旨在对科学领域的性别平等产生长期影响。增加对女性学者在研究生培训中的代表性的理解，培养了一支包容性的科学和工程劳动力队伍。本项目将调查男女学者在培养政治学博士生中的代表性。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，公开可用的数据库，分配给政治学各个子领域的政治学博士生。该数据库将用于研究两个问题：(1)指定作品中女性学者的代表性有多大？(2)哪些因素影响了教师和研究生项目分配的工作中性别代表性的变化？假设影响指派女性作者比率的因素包括导师性别、年龄、种族/民族、国籍、性取向、学术等级和从事专业的年限。该项目还将开发免费的开源软件，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。

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.