Replication Data for: "The Gendered Division of Labor in Brazilian Political Science Journals"

This article analyzes the gendered division of labor in Brazilian political science. We seek to answer two questions: what are the predominant topics in political science that are being published in the discipline’s journals? How are women and men’s authorship distributed in these journals? The methodology involved three stages. First, we built a corpus with 2,363 articles that were classified as ‘political science and international relations’ by the Coordination for the Improvement for Higher Education Personnel (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – CAPES) and published in the most prominent Brazilian journals between 2005 and 2018. Next, we scraped abstracts and other bibliographic information from publications in the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) platform and used a topic modeling technique to identify the most recurrent topics. Finally, we associated the identified topics with the authors’ gender. The data was examined based on two specific types of the gendered division of labor: the ‘horizontal’ and the ‘vertical’. Our results show that women and men as first authors tend to cluster around specific topics (horizontal division), but we did not find a tendency in journals to reject works on the topics in which women are better represented. In other words, differently from what was found by the international literature, the Brazilian journals in our sample do not seem to grant a lower status to these topics (vertical division). It is noteworthy, however, that men are the majority of first authors in all topics, including feminism.本文针对巴西政治学领域的性别劳动分工展开分析。本研究旨在解答两个核心问题：其一，该学科期刊刊载的政治学研究主流议题为何？其二，男女作者在这些期刊中的发文分布情况如何？ 本研究采用三阶段研究方法：首先，我们构建了包含2363篇文献的语料库，这些文献均被巴西高等教育人才发展协调署（Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – CAPES）归类为“政治学与国际关系”范畴，且发表于2005至2018年间巴西顶尖政治学期刊。其次，我们从科学电子在线图书馆（Scientific Electronic Library Online，SciELO）平台的出版物中抓取了摘要及其他文献书目信息，并采用主题建模技术识别出高频研究议题。最后，我们将识别出的研究议题与作者性别进行关联分析。本研究基于两类特定的性别劳动分工框架对数据展开分析：即“横向分工”与“纵向分工”。 研究结果显示，作为第一作者的男女学者往往会围绕特定议题聚集（对应横向分工格局），但未发现期刊存在拒登女性学者更具代表性的相关议题的倾向。换言之，与国际既有研究的发现不同，本研究样本中的巴西期刊似乎并未压低这类议题的学术地位（对应纵向分工格局）。 但值得注意的是，在所有研究议题中，包括女性主义研究议题在内，男性均占据第一作者的多数席位。