Women Also Know Stuff is the name of a website that provides a database of political science scholars working in politics, policy, and government in order to make women’s work more visible and accessible to others:
www.womenalsoknowstuff.com and #womenalsoknowstuff
A summary article of the project appears in Inside Higher Education by Colleen Flaherty (July 6, 2017) with the tagline, “New paper explains effort to fight gender bias in political science, and, perhaps, in other disciplines as well.”
The board of Womenalsoknowstuff has published a paper documenting their project.
Women Also Know Stuff: Meta-Level Mentoring to Battle Gender Bias in Political Science
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096517000580
- Published July 2017, PS: Political Science & Politics 50(3), pp. 779-783
Emily Beaulieu, University of Kentucky
Amber E. Boydstun, University of California, Davis
Nadia E. Brown, Purdue University
Kim Yi Dionne, Smith College
Andra Gillespie, Emory University
Samara Klar, University of Arizona
Yanna Krupnikov, Stony Brook University
Melissa R. Michelson, Menlo College
Kathleen Searles, Louisiana University
Christina Wolbrecht, University of Notre Dame
Abstract
Women know stuff. Yet, all too often, they are underrepresented in political science meetings, syllabi, and editorial boards. To counter the implicit bias that leads to women’s under-representation, to ensure that women’s expertise is included and shared, and to improve the visibility of women in political science, in February 2016 we launched the “Women Also Know Stuff” initiative, which features a crowd-sourced website and an active Twitter feed. In this article, we share the origins of our project, the effect we are already having on media utilization of women experts, and plans for how to expand that success within the discipline of political science. We also share our personal reflections on the project.