The distribution of authors and reviewers in EPS
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The distribution of authors and reviewers in EPS Daniel Stockemer1 · Alasdair Blair2 · Ekaterina Rashkova3
© European Consortium for Political Research 2020
Abstract Gender inequality as a phenomenon is also present in academic writing and publishing. In this article, we review the gender imbalance in the percentage of authors and reviewers in EPS from 2015 to 2019. At the submissions stage, male authors submit approximately twice as many manuscripts compared to female authors. At the publication stage, there is less of a gender difference due to a higher success rate for female authors. For reviewers, however, the gender discrepancies are even wider. At the invitation stage, we invited only roughly four women to review for every ten men. When it comes to completed reviews, the gap widens to roughly three women for ten men. Our findings show that we still have a long way to go to achieve parity in the review process. We suggest that parity in the review process is not independent of more women scholars being promoted to higher level academic positions. Keywords Authors · European Political Science · Gender differences · Political science · Reviewers
Introduction One of the most pressing issues facing the discipline of political science is its overall diversity and inclusivity. Despite significant interventions by political science associations such as the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), the American Political Science Association (APSA) and the UK Political Studies Association * Daniel Stockemer [email protected] Alasdair Blair [email protected] Ekaterina Rashkova [email protected] 1
School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
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Business and Law Faculty, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
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Public Governance and Management, Utrecht University School of Governance, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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(PSA), as well as academic journals and the initiatives of individuals, the discipline continues to be dominated by a masculine identity (Abu-Laban 2016). For example, the APSA 2018 Gender and Inclusion report highlights that while women represent 50.8% of the US population, they only comprise 35.6% of the APSA membership. By contrast, men represent 49.2% of the US population and comprise 64.1% of the APSA membership. At the level of organized sections, there are six sections which have a membership that is in line with the overall APSA membership ratio between women and men, while further 19 sections comprise a membership that has fewer females to men than the APSA membership as a whole. The only section that goes against this trend is the Women and Politics Research section which has a membership that is 91.9% female, although this in itself is not representative given the dominance of women in this section (Mealy 2018: 2). While such statistics only draw on one political science association—albeit the largest in the world—they are nonetheless reflective of broader concerns in the discipline. For example, while the ECPR 2018 Gender
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