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No Shortcuts to Gender Equality: The Structures of Women's Exclusion in Political Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 August 2014

Extract

J. R. R. Tolkien once suggested that “short cuts make long delays.” While Tolkien was not talking about improving the situation of women in political science, this essay argues that those of us interested in making political science less alienating for women would do well to heed his advice.

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Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
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Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2014 

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