We ask how women are faring in the field of international trade both as knowledge producers and as policy-makers, with a focus on the former. This is an important question in light of the increased, if belated, attention paid to the gendered impact of international trade rules and of the gendered nature of academia. Using article publishing as a proxy for international trade scholarship, we create a unique dataset consisting of trade-related articles published in the 27 most influential journals in the field during the past 20 years. Examining the gender balance of authors in our database reveals that, despite recent progress, women's voices are still peripheral in the field, comprising just 31.5 percent of authors in the past five years. We find no reasons to believe this is a peculiarity of knowledge creation in the field of international trade. Rather, the analysis suggests that it is the highly gendered nature of the broad fields of International Relations and International Political Economy that explains the gender imbalance we find. Looking ahead, if we are serious about addressing gender imbalances in international trade policy-making and knowledge production, new knowledge and strategies are needed that address the structural reasons that contribute to the arbitrary but very real gender inequalities both in academia and policy-making. Ensuring women scholars and policy-makers are fully represented in formulating and implementing these strategies is a basic, even if insufficient, precondition for their success.

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外围声音：国际贸易中的女性​​奖学金

我们询问女性作为知识生产者和政策制定者在国际贸易领域的表现如何，重点关注前者。鉴于人们对国际贸易规则的性别影响和学术界的性别性质的关注日益增加（尽管有些迟来），这是一个重要的问题。使用文章发表作为国际贸易学术的代表，我们创建了一个独特的数据集，其中包含过去 20 年来在该领域 27 种最有影响力的期刊上发表的与贸易相关的文章。检查我们数据库中作者的性别平衡表明，尽管最近取得了进展，但女性的声音在该领域仍然处于边缘地位，在过去五年中仅占作者的 31.5%。我们没有理由相信这是国际贸易领域知识创造的特点。相反，分析表明，正是国际关系和国际政治经济学广泛领域的高度性别特征解释了我们发现的性别失衡。展望未来，如果我们认真解决国际贸易决策和知识生产中的性别失衡问题，就需要新的知识和战略来解决造成学术界和政策制定中任意但非常现实的性别不平等的结构性原因。确保女性学者和政策制定者充分参与制定和实施这些战略是其成功的基本前提，即使还不够。