Gender and Diversity in Political Science

Research shows that diversity can favour innovations in the production of knowledge and promote less hostile working environments for groups that suffer from inequalities. On the other hand, empirical evidence collected in different countries around the world indicates that political science is a discipline with severe inequalities in the most stable and hierarchical positions in academic careers, with a predominance of men and white scholars. Gender citation gaps have also been identified in the discipline's most prestigious journals. In addition, a number of studies have shown that women are under-represented as authors and that gender content is scarce in the curricula of political science training programmes. What problems does this pose for the discipline? What recommendations can be made to redress these inequalities within the discipline? The purpose of this panel is to bring together contributions that measure and analyse the phenomenon based on different variables, such as gender, race, class, sexuality, and geographical origin. We encourage submissions of case studies, but also comparative analyses based on mixed, quantitative, or qualitative methods.