Visualizing Gender Equality: Analizing data of Women in Social Sciences in Argentina

In 1992, Ann Tickner began her book "Gender in International Relations: Feminist perspectives on achieving global security" by pointing out that her research started by questioning why there were so few women in her discipline. 30 years later, this investigation starts with the same question in mind. This work focuses on analyzing the gender gap within the field of Social Sciences and specifically International Relations in Argentina. Specifically, citation patterns it is used as a way to assess the level of centrality of scholars in their field of study. This work analyze the gender gap in two ways. Firstly, by a descriptive analysis of data from CONICET on researchers with fields of study related to International Relations. Secondly, analyzing a citation and co-authorship network analysis using the statistical package R and the Google Scholar API.