What it's really like to be a parent in the world of higher education, and how academia can
make this hard climb a little less steep Academia has a big problem. For many parents …

Although gender parity has been reached at the graduate level in the geosciences, women
remain a minority in faculty positions. First authorship of peer‐reviewed scholarship is a …

Knowledge creation is a social enterprise, especially in political science. Sharing new
findings widely and quickly is essential for progress. Scholars can now use Twitter to rapidly …

Creating interdisciplinary dialog in the field of socio-economics cannot be separated from
the social diversity among scholarly voices within its community. In marking the 20th …

The gender publication gap puts women at a disadvantage for tenure and promotion, which
contributes to the discipline's leaky pipeline. Several studies published in PS find no …

Our research on bias in family formation is rooted in the extant literature of gender and
academia but moves beyond discussion of the “leaky-pipeline” metaphor to explore less …

Publishing has a variety of functions for academics. The most significant of these is linked to
esteem and career success. Beyond this, however, publishing in academic journals also …

Women's underrepresentation in top political science journals has been a central concern of
both the American Political Science Association and the European Consortium of Political …

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 …

As the premier outlet of the American Political Science Association (APSA), the American
Political Science Review (APSR) understands itself as a journal of “general interest.” The …