Description
For all but the most ardent positivists, knowledge production is not seen as a neutral, value-free endeavour but one that is partly shaped by who is involved in its production. The need for greater diversity in which voices are heard in the academic literature is increasingly recognised, most notably in efforts toward ‘decolonising the curriculum’. This paper uses a unique, newly constructed dataset of authors of academic papers on trade in high ranked journals to explore the imbalance between men and women scholars publishing in the field. Examining all articles that list ‘trade’ as a subject in 26 IPE-related journals going back 20 years, we find a significant inequality, with around 70 percent of authors being men. This raises important questions concerning the nature of the literature on trade, the discipline more broadly and the types of knowledge being created.
