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What can the APSA do?-- An update

Jane MansbridgeSept. 3, 2014 APSA

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!

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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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Data: 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

Mutual Mentoring Chatline

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

Possible further content for APSA CSWP microsite:

Urgent: Need volunteers to work on the microsite with APSA staff

Need volunteers to work on the mentoring chatline with Kristen Monroe

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Thanks to CSWP, Fran Rosenbluth, and Andrea Katz , Yale

2. Pipeline Practices:

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Pipeline Practices:

Recruitment and Hiring

Advertising

Recruitment

Search Committee Guidelines

Dual Career Services

Assignment of Responsibilities and Duties

Parental Leave

Tenure Clock

Childcare

Inclusive Campus Culture

Mentoring

Resources for faculty women

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A consortium of the APSA Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession and the ASA Committee on the Status of Women in Sociology, with possibly later the AEA CSWEP, the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession) has collected many of these practices (thanks to Andrea Katz). After discussions with the ASA, the data will, if possible, be placed on the microsite in a “wiki” format that would allow members to update and add entries.

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3. Pipeline to Tenure Data: 20 largest PhD- Other universities

granting universities (volunteered)

BAs:

Entering PhDs:

Earned Doctorates:

Assistant Professor:

Associate Professor:

Tenured Professor:

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For more data, see:

APSA Department Survey

APSA Placement Survey

NSF Earned Doctorate Survey

US Department of Education Survey

Publications on the pipeline

Thanks to the APSA Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession (Fran Rosenbluth, Chair), 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 Asian Americans.

BAs are not strictly part of the pipeline to tenure, because a) many undergrads take political science for extrinsic reasons, such as appearance on law school applications, and b) many political science PhD program entrants come from other disciplines. This marker thus indicates only possible entrants to the pipeline to tenure.

Data from the largest 20 PhD granting political science departments (minus Duke and UCSD). We can add other departments that volunteer their data.

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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.