Why aren’t more female political scientists doing quantitative work? Isn’t it possible that the causality is a little different than you suppose – that more attention is paid to quantitative work not because there are more men involved, but because it is tacitly considered more objectively valuable? The sexism may play out in the fear of expressing this sentiment (that quatitative is simply superior to qualitative research) because of not wanting to give offense to women or feminist power blocks, with whom qualitative work is strongly associated.
This would certainly be my intuition after an undergraduate degree in Sociology from a very liberal school. I certainly came out of it with (1) the belief that quantitative work was objectively more valuable (more reproducable, less malleable to pre-existing researcher biases, etc), and (2) the impression that this judgment should not be expressed for fear of offending a power block.
