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Since the 1990s, there is consensus in the literature of a submission and publication gap in favor of men. Important research in the intervening years has explored the many reasons for this output gap: imbalanced administrative workloads, bias in top journals against female dominated subfields and methodological approaches and lower confidence levels among women, sometimes known as the “Matthew effect”. But in the intervening period, there has been a notable emphasis on recruiting more women into academia and the importance of publishing for career development has intensified. Some journal case studies have highlighted a growth in output by female academics but show that men are still over-represented. We add to the emerging body of work that shows the gender gap has diminished or even vanished using a case study of the International Political Science Review (IPSR). We present data on submissions and acceptances by gender and root our comparisons in the gender balance of the departments of submitting authors. The results are clear, for IPSR, the gender gap has closed and women now publish on a par with male colleagues in their departments.
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