What can the APSA do? -- An update Jane Mansbridge Sept. 3, 2014 APSA 1

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: 3 New APSA policy: Each organized section and committee can have a “microsite.”

4 Current listing in APSA website, among “Status Committees”:

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 5

6 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:

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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: 8 Urgent: Need volunteers to work on the microsite with APSA staff Need volunteers to work on the mentoring chatline with Kristen Monroe

9 Thanks to CSWP, Fran Rosenbluth, and Andrea Katz, Yale 2. Pipeline Practices:

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 : 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. 10

3. Pipeline to Tenure Data: 20 largest PhD- Other universities granting universities (volunteered) BAs: Entering PhDs: Earned Doctorates: Assistant Professor: Associate Professor: Tenured Professor: …………………………… 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. 11 Data from the largest 20 PhD granting political science departments (minus Duke and UCSD). We can add other departments that volunteer their data.

12 Pipeline to Tenure data: Thanks to Francesca Grandi, Yale

13 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. 15