tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446351548038522890.post5355709241294821008..comments2024-03-08T13:21:43.158-05:00Comments on Saideman's Semi-Spew: Sexism in Political Science: Fact or Fact?Steve Saidemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09881915512311951902noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446351548038522890.post-12796128459730815512015-07-11T11:39:11.257-04:002015-07-11T11:39:11.257-04:00That post has been clicked on more than 2000 times...That post has been clicked on more than 2000 times, which is far more than my average spew. Plus the re-posting elsewhere got heaps of hits.<br /><br />Some powerful senior male scholars are critical of professionalization and publicly lament the decline of the Old Boys Network. What kind of signal does that send? You may think it is complete BS, but it is funny I only hear from men and not women that it is BS. Oh, and there is more to it than that part of that post. That is just shorthand for the pile of stories over the years. Steve Saidemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09881915512311951902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446351548038522890.post-40328794126691179302015-07-11T11:27:58.018-04:002015-07-11T11:27:58.018-04:00The evidence you cite in point 1 does not back you... The evidence you cite in point 1 does not back your contention at all. ( it doesn't argue against it either, it is just irrelevant.)<br /><br /> The link you offer as evidence for point four is complete BS: you must of been hoping that no one would actually click on it.gcallahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446351548038522890.post-31924484814974671882015-07-10T10:28:46.472-04:002015-07-10T10:28:46.472-04:00Not great.
I could have included an anecdote ab...Not great. <br /><br />I could have included an anecdote about how I learned/revealed of an attempt to exclude a female colleague from a post-dissertation defence celebration. A student was defending his dissertation at a place after I had moved on, and in the conference call, I asked my female former colleague to pay for the guy's beer for me, and it quickly became she had been excluded from the planned festivities. After the department had been through so much, including receivership, it was sad to see a younger generation of men repeat the sins of the past.Steve Saidemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09881915512311951902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446351548038522890.post-67043642834827939302015-07-10T10:02:30.734-04:002015-07-10T10:02:30.734-04:00Just an anecdote in response to Page's comment...Just an anecdote in response to Page's comment: A male colleague of mine was being recruited by another university. Another colleague tried to reassure me that they were only going after him instead of me because I "made too much money." This wasn't very reassuring because he made substantially more than I did, in spite of being junior to me.Lisa Martinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446351548038522890.post-54549925899049865602015-07-10T09:56:46.740-04:002015-07-10T09:56:46.740-04:00Thanks. I probably also should have mentioned the...Thanks. I probably also should have mentioned the leaky pipeline.Steve Saidemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09881915512311951902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446351548038522890.post-79245692645476247152015-07-10T02:17:27.287-04:002015-07-10T02:17:27.287-04:00You can add to the list discrepancies between men ...You can add to the list discrepancies between men and women in salaries and research money. Lots of causes for both (less mobility for women on average because of partners' jobs, less forceful negotiating, implicit bias, etc.).Page Fortnanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446351548038522890.post-29457433858353052352015-07-09T21:53:43.811-04:002015-07-09T21:53:43.811-04:00Probably hit a bit too close to home ;) Not sure ...Probably hit a bit too close to home ;) Not sure it is my favorite pixar, but Drezner was right about how much feels it has.Steve Saidemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09881915512311951902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446351548038522890.post-14365626943164479912015-07-09T21:39:04.450-04:002015-07-09T21:39:04.450-04:00Excellent movie! Dragged my 14-year old daughter a...Excellent movie! Dragged my 14-year old daughter and a couple of her friends to it. I liked it more than they did, though.Lisa Martinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446351548038522890.post-78855731812157972662015-07-09T21:37:44.579-04:002015-07-09T21:37:44.579-04:00Thanks for posting. Will check out once I get down...Thanks for posting. Will check out once I get down from the high seeing "Inside Out."Steve Saidemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09881915512311951902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446351548038522890.post-21626333028165374142015-07-09T17:54:20.506-04:002015-07-09T17:54:20.506-04:00In a bit of shameless self-promotion, I have a pap...In a bit of shameless self-promotion, I have a paper on what I think is a too-often trivialized element of sexism in the profession, bias in student evaluations of teaching. It's a serious issue, especially in large classes and especially in departments that put heavy emphasis on these evaluations in promotion and award decisions. https://faculty.polisci.wisc.edu/llmartin3/research/working-papers/Lisa Martinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446351548038522890.post-31654938806960283772015-07-09T10:06:23.095-04:002015-07-09T10:06:23.095-04:001: Sure, but I have been hearing that myth for ove...1: Sure, but I have been hearing that myth for over twenty years--if it was at all true, there would have been far more change in the balance since then. But yes, real numbers would have been helpful. My semi-spew is not always well researched.<br /><br />2: The anecdotes are the tip of the iceberg. I forgot to mention a couple of others, and, as a man, I don't observe as much.<br /><br />3: Lists of great RECENT books should not be 90-100% male.<br /><br />4: Yep.<br /><br />5: Yep, catch 22 plus path dependence--not good.<br /><br />6: Political Science Rumors, a website where folks can mostly anonymously post about the profession.Steve Saidemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09881915512311951902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446351548038522890.post-82016179244785530862015-07-09T10:01:41.064-04:002015-07-09T10:01:41.064-04:00Solid Post.
To Point 1. You are talking about jo...Solid Post. <br /><br />To Point 1. You are talking about jobs being acquired now but measured against the total number of professors (many of whom retain tenure) and have been in place for years -which is quite the heuristic. To get an accurate read on sexism 'now' you would need to cite the data of new hires OR compare the 80% white and 70% male data and see if (as sad as it may be) that actually is improvement over the last 20, 30, 40 years...<br /><br />To point 2. Holy shit that's scary and I hope those anecdotes are not wide spread. <br /><br />To Point 3. That's disappointing given the amount of great female writers (particularly in the 17th and 18th century), but you would also expect it to be roughly proportional to the number of writers across all time which were mostly men (albeit largely because of other oppressive conditions). <br /><br />To point 4. Sad. No one should lament more equality.<br /><br />To point 5. I wonder if they were not asked to chair those committees if the argument instead would be that the committees themselves are unbalanced and sexist - catch 22. Oh well, another one of these problems that will only be solved by the hiring of more women. <br /><br />To point 6. What's PSR?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12085546637843344988noreply@blogger.com