What can the APSA do?
-- An update
Jane Mansbridge
Sept. 3, 2014 APSA
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What can the APSA do?
1. Webpage  Committee on the Status of
Women in the Profession microsite
2. “Pipeline Practices” data  APSA/ASA
3. Pipeline to Tenure Data  largest 20 PhD
programs
These ideas have been discussed with:
• APSA directors and staff
• The APSA Committee on the Status of Women
• Last year’s equality panel discussants/audience
but NOT YET WITH:
• Other status group chairs
• Women’s Caucus for Political Science members
• YOU!
1. Microsite:
• New APSA policy: Each organized section and
committee can have a “microsite.”
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Current listing in APSA website, among “Status Committees”:
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Possible Diversity box on APSA home page that could link to microsite:
•Women
•Blacks
•Latinos y Latinas
•Asian-Pacific Americans
•Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Transgenders
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1. Microsite: Thanks to Denise Walsh and Carol Mershon got an
NSF ADVANCE grant to develop this site (!!) which will be migrated
and adapted to the APSA website this fall.
Now at: http://genderingpoliticalscience.weebly.com/
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Possible further content for APSA CSWP microsite:
Data:
Urgent: Need volunteers to
work on the microsite with
APSA staff
The “pipeline” for women
Authorships in APSA journals by gender
Citations in journals by gender
Other data
Publications with data on women in political science
Data on the Profession, APSA
Pipeline Practices for universities
Women of Color page
Grants for APSA annual meeting (graduate students)
Grants - other
APSA mentoring program
Your Opinion/Discussion Forums
Need volunteers to work on the
Mutual Mentoring Chatline
mentoring chatline with Kristen Monroe
Resources:
APSA Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession
Kimberly (Kim) Mealy, Director, Diversity and Inclusion Programs APSA
Women’s Caucus for Political Science
Annual meeting – receptions and business meetings
Regional associations
NSF Advance Program
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2.
Pipeline Practices:
Thanks to CSWP, Fran Rosenbluth,
and Andrea Katz , Yale
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A consortium of the APSA
Pipeline Practices:
Committee on the Status
of Women in the
Recruitment and Hiring
Profession and the ASA
Committee on the Status
Advertising
of Women in Sociology,
Recruitment
with possibly later the AEA
Search Committee Guidelines
CSWEP, the Committee on
Dual Career Services
the Status of Women in
Assignment of Responsibilities and Duties the Economics Profession)
has collected many of
Parental Leave
these practices (thanks to
Tenure Clock
Andrea Katz).
Childcare
After discussions with
the ASA, the data will, if
Inclusive Campus Culture
possible, be placed on the
Mentoring
microsite in a “wiki”
Resources for faculty women
format that would allow
members to update and
:
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add entries.
3.
Pipeline to Tenure Data:
Thanks to the
APSA Committee on
20 largest PhDOther universities the Status of
Women in the
granting universities
(volunteered) Profession (Fran
BAs are not strictly part of the pipeline
Rosenbluth, Chair),
BAs:
to tenure, because a) many undergrads
take political science for extrinsic
Entering PhDs:
reasons, such as appearance on law
Earned Doctorates:
school applications, and b) many political
science PhD program entrants come
Assistant Professor:
from other disciplines. This marker thus
indicates only possible entrants to the
Associate Professor:
pipeline to tenure.
Tenured Professor:
Data from the largest
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20 PhD granting
political science
APSA Department Survey
departments (minus
APSA Placement Survey
Duke and UCSD). We
NSF Earned Doctorate Survey
can add other
US Department of Education Survey departments that
volunteer their data.
Publications on the pipeline
For more data, see:
Francesca Grandi
(Yale), and the Data
Monitoring Project,
esp. Kathy Thelen.
Paula McClain at
Duke , Kay Achar,
Page Fortna at
Columbia, and Fran
Rosenbluth at Yale
have vetted the
instrument, which
uses the US Dept of
Education
categories for
under-represented
minorities plus
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Asian Americans.
Pipeline to Tenure data:
Thanks to Francesca Grandi, Yale
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Pipeline to Tenure data:
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Conclusion:
1. Need volunteers: for microsite -- work with
Kim Mealy, APSA staff, the APSA Committee
on the Status of Women in the Profession,
and the Women’s Caucus for Political
Science.
2. Help with Pipeline Practices data
3. Help with Pipeline to Tenure data
4. Need suggestions throughout.
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