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Femina Studens rei Publicae: Notes on her Professional Achievement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2022

Victoria Schuck
Victoria Schuck*
Affiliation:
Mount Holyoke College
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The profile of Femina Studens rei Publicae which has developed from the gross statistics and the 1969 survey of departments of political science shows that the professional woman in academia is primarily in the lower ranks, often not even on the first step of the promotion “ladder” and is teaching undergraduates. Although her habitat is the small college, there are signs that she may be emerging from it to the faculties of the city and state university. Recently she has been receiving Ph.D.'s at a greater rate of growth than that for men, but she still remains a small minority. In considering the following ratios related to her publications, other evidences of scholarship, and the recognition accorded to her in the profession, it is important to stress that the woman political scientist who is teaching constitutes five percent of the membership in the A.P.S.A. and according to the 1969 survey, 8.4 percent of all faculty in political science in colleges and universities.

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Research Article
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , Fall 1970 , pp. 622 - 628
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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1970

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1 Adapted from a paper presented at the 1970 Annual Meeting of the APSA in Los Angeles, Calif., September 1970. See the writer's “Women in Political Science: Some Preliminary Observations,” PS, Fall 1969, II, 642–653, and “Some Comparative Statistics on Women in Political Science and Other Social Sciences,” Summer 1970, III, 357–361: “Women in the Political Science Profession,” October 1968, updated October 1969, APSA Washington, D.C., 1969 (mimeograph).

2 Davis, Ann E., “Women as a Minority Group in Higher Academics,” The American Sociologist, May 1969, IV, 97 Google Scholar; Lawrence A. Simpson, A Study of Employing Agents' Attitudes toward American Women in Higher Education, Doctoral Thesis, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, 1968, 28. Bernard, Jessie, Academic Women, University Park, Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1964, 146–152 Google Scholar; Kreps, Juanita M., “Sex and the Scholarly Girl,” AAUP Bulletin, March 1965, LI, 30–33.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 Committee on Senate Policy, University of California, Berkeley, Report of the Subcommittee on the Status of Academic Women on the Berkeley Campus, May 19, 1970, 35 Google Scholar; Fischer, Ann and Golde, Peggy, “The Position of Women in Anthropology,” American Anthropologist, April 1968, LXX, 337–343 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Simon, Rita James, Clark, Shirley Merritt, and Galway, Kathleen, “The Woman Ph.D.: A Recent Profile,” Social Problems, Summer 1967, XV, 230–232 Google Scholar; Simon, Rita James and Rosenthal, Evelyn, “Profile of the Woman Ph.D. in Economics, History, and Sociology,” AAUW Journal, March 1967, LX, 127–129.Google Scholar

4 Rossi, Alice, “Discrimination and Demography Restrict Opportunities for Academic Women,” College and University Business, February 1970, XLIII, 78.Google Scholar

5 For listings see American Political Science Association, Scholarly Journals in the Social Sciences, Washington, D.C. nd, 5–6 Section E (mimeograph).

6 Some 300 referees of whom fifteen were women evaluated articles for the A.P.S.R. in the period July 1965-mid 1970. Authors of rejected manuscripts receive copies of the critiques of referees. For procedures in reviewing manuscripts sent to the editor of the A.P.S.R. see Ranney, Austin, “Procedures for Reviewing Manuscripts,” A.P.S.R., March 1969, LXIII, 168–169.Google Scholar In the period August 1, 1965 to July 31, 1968, 16.8 percent of the manuscripts submitted were published. For annual rates see “Report of the Managing Editor American Political Science Review 1969–1970,” PS, Summer 1970, III, Special Issue, 600–602.

7 For early meetings of the A.P.S.A. see Proceedings of the American Political Science Association, vols. I–III, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Wickersham Press, 1905–1907; vols. IV–X, Baltimore, Maryland, Waverly Press, 1908–1914. At the first meeting there were eight papers including three on the general topic of International Law; two on the Government of Colonies and Dependencies; and three on State and Local Government. Two of the eight were mentioned but not read only because of the absence of their authors.

8 Proceedings V, 1908 (1909), 28, 34.

9 For a copy of the constitution see Proceedings, IV, 1907 (1908), 3–4.

10 See Proceedings, X, 1913 (1914).

11 This is not a true rate because of the use of 1968 membership figures instead of a mid term population. The 1968 membership figures are the only figures available showing breakdown by sex. Student members are excluded.