#MeTooPoliSci

ADVANCE

THE #M2PS WEBSPACE

What is #MeTooPoliSci ADVANCE?

The American Political Science Association is teaming up with Drs. Nadia Brown, Rebecca Gill, Stella Rouse, and Elizabeth Sharrow to address the problems of sexual harassment and gender-based discrimination that create hostile working and learning climates in political science. The team is engaged in a three-year, $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation ADVANCE program. The primary goal of the grant is to support the wider adaptation of empirically-tested interventions such as department climate studies, upstanding bystander training, department-level facilitated dialogues, and policy changes that support an improved climate and contribute to preventing and responding to harassment and bullying in the field of political science. We aim to capitalize on the power that professional associations have to model, facilitate, and incentivize change in the climate and culture of the disciplines they serve through a substantial partnership with the APSA.

This work is funded by the National Science Foundation grants 1936086, 1936045, 1936099, and 1936113, “ADVANCE Partnership: #MeTooPoliSci Leveraging A Professional Association to Address Sexual Harassment in Political Science.” The goals of the ADVANCE program are (1) to develop systemic approaches to increase the representation and advancement of women in academic STEM careers; (2) to develop innovative and sustainable ways to promote gender equity that involve both men and women in the STEM academic workforce; and (3) to contribute to the research knowledge base on gender equity and the intersection of gender and other identities in STEM academic careers. The Partnership track is designed to support the work to facilitate the broader adaptation of gender equity and systemic change strategies. Partnership projects focus on the transformation of institutions and organizations and/or the transformation within one or more STEM disciplines.