Women’s Policy Journal of Harvard

John F. Kennedy School of Government  
 

CALL FOR PAPERS
 
Priority Deadline: 30 NOVEMBER 2009

Final Deadline: 18 DECEMBER 2009  

The Women’s Policy Journal of Harvard, John F. Kennedy School of Government is a student-run, nonpartisan review dedicated to publishing interdisciplinary work on policy making and politics affecting women. We strive to improve the quality of public policies affecting women with the intention of furthering female economic, social, and political empowerment. 

We are currently accepting submissions for our summer 2010 volume. 

We seek papers that explore the impact of public policies on women around the world and provide new insight into issues affecting diverse groups of women. We also welcome articles and commentaries that offer a gendered or a woman’s perspective on pressing political, social, and economic policy issues or investigate the role of women in the policy-making sphere. 

Email inquiries and submissions to wpjh@ksg.harvard.edu

 SELECTION CRITERIA

The WPJH will be selecting papers for publication based on the following criteria:

• Timeliness of topic to current policy discussions
• Originality and depth of research and ideas
• Sophistication and style of arguments
• Contribution to scholarship and policy making  

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES  

• Research articles should be between 4,000 and 7,000 words and include a 100-word abstract.
• Commentaries should be between 2,000 and 3,000 words.
• Work must be original and unpublished.
• Work should be formatted in any version of Microsoft Word.
• One electronic copy and five hard copies of the work should be submitted.
• Citations should be formatted in the author-date system via running text, according to the guidelines in the Chicago Manual of Style. Footnotes are not accepted.