Still Marginalized? Gender and LGBTQIA+ Scholarship in Top Political Science Journals –

Nonetheless Marginalized? Gender and LGBTQIA+ Scholarship in Prime Political Science Journals

By Jennifer M. Piscopo, College of London

Is political science analysis that explores gender and LGBTQIA+ politics nonetheless underrepresented within the self-discipline’s high journals? This text examines publication tendencies in gender analysis and LGBTQIA+ analysis in 5 high political science journals, between 2017 and 2023 (inclusive). I discover that gender analysis and LGBTQIA+ analysis collectively account for five% to 7% of revealed analysis within the chosen high journals; nonetheless, most of this analysis is on gender politics quite than LGBTQIA+ politics. Total, gender analysis and LGBTQIA+ analysis largely seems in high journals when it conforms to disciplinary norms about strategies and writer gender. The vast majority of revealed gender and LGBTQIA+ analysis is quantitative. Males writer gender analysis at charges nearly thrice their membership within the American Political Science Affiliation’s Girls, Gender, and Politics analysis part and likewise are overrepresented as authors of LGBTQIA+ analysis. This research means that editorial groups’ signaling influences which manuscripts land at which journals.