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Ten Years of Affirmative Action and the Changing Status of Women in Political Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2022

Doris-Jean Burton
Doris-Jean Burton*
Affiliation:
Indiana University
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In 1969 PS published the findings of APSA's first survey on the status of women in the discipline. The author concluded: “Tokenism is the prevailing pattern.” More than half of the departments had no female faculty members. Among 18 of the “distinguished” departments women comprised only 4.3 percent of the aggregate faculty. Female faculty were concentrated in undergraduate departments, in small departments with 15 or less faculty members and in part-time jobs. Has the status of women in the profession improved since 1969? To the extent that numbers can tell, this report examines the effects of a decade of affirmative action.

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Research Article
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , Winter 1979 , pp. 18 - 23
Copyright
Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1979

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References

1 Schuck, Victoria, “Women in Political Science, Some Preliminary Observations,” PS, Fall, 1969, pp. 642–653.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 Unless otherwise indicated, all data are from the annual survey of departments.

3 See the reports on “Placement of Political Scientists” by Thomas Mann which appear annually in PS.

4 See the reports of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession published in PS.

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