Misdirected Backlash: The Evolving Nature of Academia and the Status of Women in Political Science
Year: 1999
Type: article
Abstract: The backlash remarkets old myths about women as new facts and ignores all appeals to reason.-Susan Faludi (1991, xxii) W hen we began to study the status of women in the professorate, we naively assumed that this research would be rather straightforward.It seemed that there was little if any data concerning women's status in political science, and that this discipline warranted investigation, complementing similar research conducted in other fields.What we were unprepared for, and were dismayed to discover, was the existence and the extent of the backlash against women in our field.This backlash manifested itself to us in a variety of forms, including derisive comments and questionable jokes during panel presentations, hostility from some colleagues over the desirability of such research, and disheartening stories from female graduate students.1 The basis of Meredith Reid Sarkees is professor and chair of the department of political science at Niagara University.She received her MA from George Washington University and her Ph.D. from SUNY-Buffalo.Her research activities are concentrated within three major areas: war and systemic structure with the Correlates of War Project; Women in Foreign Policy: The Insiders, with Nancy E. McGlen; and the status of women in international relations, with Marie Henehan.
Source: PS Political Science & Politics
Authors: Meredith Reid Sarkees, Nancy E. McGlen
Institution: Niagara University
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2102835587