The Duck of Minerva has two excellent posts pointing to elitist and sexism in academia.
Adrienne Lebas points to a disturbing chart from the Chronicle which graphs the number of published articles written by women in various disciplines. Political science does not fare well.
Dan Nexon discusses a new study of hiring patterns in the political science job market, which found that the vast majority of jobs go to candidates that come from a handful of schools.
He writes, "I suspect that many of the stories we tell ourselves about “meritocratic sorting” are, in fact, rationalizations for the status-quo hierarchy of academic capital in the field. At the very least, we ought to much more seriously consider the possibility that we are, like Aristotle, naturalizing socialinequality via circular reasoning."
Apt. 11d 