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Women in International Relations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 March 2008

Daniel Maliniak ,
Amy Oakes ,
Susan Peterson  and
Michael J. Tierney
Daniel Maliniak
Affiliation:
University of California San Diego
Amy Oakes
Affiliation:
College of William and Mary
Susan Peterson
Affiliation:
College of William and Mary
Michael J. Tierney
Affiliation:
College of William and Mary
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Women now receive political science degrees in record numbers, but female representation among political science faculty still lags behind that of many other disciplines. Only 26% of the 13,000 political science professors in the United States today are women (Sedowski and Brintall 2007). According to our recent survey of international relations faculty in the United States—the 2006 Teaching, Research, and International Politics (TRIP) Survey—women comprise an even smaller proportion of IR scholars: 77% of the IR faculty respondents are men, while only 23% are women. Even more than their counterparts in the wider field of political science, women in IR tend to be more junior and less likely to hold tenure than their male colleagues. Women comprise a minority at every level of the profession, but they are most scarce at the full professor level: Only 17% of political science professors and 14% of IR professors are women (Maliniak et al. 2007c; Sedowski and Brintall 2007).

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Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
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Politics & Gender , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , March 2008 , pp. 122 - 144
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Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2008

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