What is it about?
Paper addresses Cynthia Enlloe's challenge "Where are the women?" within the context of the International Studies Association, a professional association. We show that women are relatively more present in the profession than in relevant academic journals, and also that women are more present in certain substantive sections of the association than in others.
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Why is it important?
It helps to show that women are present within the discipline and begs the question why women aren't publishing more often in academic journals. It also indirectly addresses the "leaky pipeline" phenomenon (in which women drop out of the profession at much greater rates than their male colleagues).
Perspectives
This paper required a lot of digging through years of conference programs for my co-authors and myself. This type of work is quite labor-intensive, but also quite important: by providing data on women's status in the discipline, it is no longer possible to minimize or trivialize the problem of women's status and progress in the discipline.
Dr Marijke Breuning
University of North Texas
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This page is a summary of: Participation by Women in ISA Annual Meetings, 2005-2009, International Studies Perspectives, August 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-3585.2010.00406.x.
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