Year: 2025
Type: editorial
Abstract: Since its launch in 2005, Politics & Gender has been a leading outlet for research on women, gender, and politics in both the United States and globally.This special issue marks the journal's 20th anniversary with a collection of essays dedicated to Politics & Gender and its impact on political science.In a public call for papers circulated last year, the editors solicited submissions on questions like: How has Politics & Gender shaped and contributed to debates in the discipline, informing knowledge on certain topics or setting new research agendas?How has research on women, gender, and politics evolved over the last 20 years, as viewed through the lens of publications and topics appearing in Politics & Gender?What role has Politics & Gender played in your career, for example, in terms of inspiring lines of research, finding collaborators, or gaining a profile in the field?What are new topics and approaches that should be taken up in Politics & Gender in the coming years?Scholars who responded to this call include scholars from a variety of institutions at all stages of their careers, from graduate students to junior researchers to distinguished senior academics.Reading and editing the contributions has offered me a privileged view into what Politics & Gender has meant to others and to the discipline as a whole.It has also given me an opportunity to reflect on the impact of the journal, both personally and professionally, on my own career.I was a graduate student attending my first ever American Political Science Association (APSA) meeting in 2003 when I first learned about the journal.That year, the APSA Women and Politics Section (now the Women, Gender, and Politics Section) decided to launch Politics & Gender as its official journal, after many years of being informally associated with Women & Politics (now the Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, or JWPP).One of my most vivid memories from the 2003 section business meeting was Pippa Norris explaining why the journal would be named Politics & Gender and not Gender & Politics.This was because the committee wanted to highlight that the journal's aim was to bring gender into political science, rather than political science into gender studies (see also Baldez and Beckwith 2025).This linguistic
Source: Politics & Gender
Author: Mona Lena Krook
Institution: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Language: English
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Gender equality
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4408674199