As part of a series on the gender gap in Political Science, former Visiting Fellow Amy Erica Smith contributed two articles.

In the first, she and coauthor Heidi Hardt explain why it's important for female-authored works to be included in the classroom. 

"To become a professor, one must first spend years working to earn a PhD. The coursework that students pursue as part of their doctoral programs serves as the foundation for their academic careers. Those courses don’t just convey knowledge; they also socialize students into the culture and norms of academia." Read "Political Science Professors Assign Fewer Readings by Women than by Men. Here’s Why that Matters" in the Washington Post's Monkey Cage.

In their second article, they analyzed why professors who are women publish less research than men as the seventh publication of this series: "Why do professors who are women publish less research than men? Here’s what we found.

"Over the past several decades, both disciplines have increasingly seen women taking faculty positions at nearly the same rate as men. But men continue to hold the most senior spots and have more time and funding to support their research and publication." Here they examine the existence of the gender gap in research output and why.