Building a Gender and Methodology Curriculum: Integrated Skills, Exercises, and Practices (original) (raw)

Gender and the Political Science Graduate Experience: When Leaning In Isn't Enough

Graduate programs present challenges for women that mirror those in society and are also compounded by entrenched norms within the academy and the discipline. This chapter seeks to guide women-identifying graduate students on navigating these challenges and combat the often isolating experience academia presents. The perception that women are less methodologically and theoretically rigorous in their research is only one of many stressors impacting women in the academy and political science. Through the various lenses of learning, teaching, and research, we provide tangible advice for women in the discipline to find success and balance while creating space for the things that brought you to study political science at a graduate level in the first place. This manuscript is part of Strategies for Navigating Graduate School and Beyond, a forthcoming volume for those interested in pursuing graduate education in political science (Fall 2022 publication).

Taking It To The Masses: teaching women and politics as a large enrollment general education class

Women and politics or gender and politics courses are often boutique or upper-division courses in Political Science or Women’s Studies departments. How might the teaching strategies change if the course was taught as a large-enrollment, general education course? Using a survey of women and politics syllabi, this article examines some of the standard or common approaches used when teaching women and politics at the upper division level. Challenges to expanding the enrollment of the course are identified, and alternatives are offered for creating a women and politics course that would be available to students with a wide range of backgrounds and majors. Additional strategies are suggested for adopting the course to a higher enrollment. A framework is provided for integrating women and politics into the general curriculum, including encouraging enrollment.

Gender, Diversity, and Methods in Political Science: A Theory of Selection and Survival Biases

PS: Political Science & Politics

At a recent major political science conference, Tamara (not her real name) presented an in-depth qualitative study several years in the making, only to have the panelist speaking after her begin his remarks by saying, “And now back to the hard-core data.” By this, he meant quantitative, large-n data, which his work utilized. This moment highlights a series of tensions in our field relating to gender and methodology, and their effects, which this article explores and elucidates.