Fascinating Study that shows no Gender Gap in Tenure for Professors, but interesting family dynamics (none, or age of children) does play a role.

DejaBoo · 2012-06-13T18:36:47+00:00

An edit of the bullet points of the conclusion of the study:

single women are significantly more likely than single men to enter tenure track jobs and to be granted tenure ceteris paribus. Reversing this, single women who received tenure are much less likely to become full professors within fifteen years of Ph.D.

Marriage greatly increases the likelihood than men get tenure track jobs (by 22 percent), but has smaller and generally less significant effects on men’s promotion at either level.

Marriage tends not to hurt women’s likelihood of getting tenure track jobs, being granted tenure or becoming full. Often, it helps.

and this one struck me as interesting, especially the wording (any thoughts?):

The widespread labor market disadvantages of single men suggests that the most able men tend to get married and have children.

pvtshoebox · 2012-06-13T19:37:53+00:00

As a side note, I would like to strongly advocate that universties allow mothers and fathers to stop the tenure clock for maternity/paternity leave. As it stands, a woman will be in her late 20's when she gets a PhD, then she will usually slog about as a post-doctoral fellow for a few years before she can get a tenure track position. Then, she is about thirty. The tenure track position will require her to regularly publish, and breaks in the progress are condemned. Women, in effect, have to chose between having their own children or becoming tenured professors.

Thoughts?

Title	Fascinating Study that shows no Gender Gap in Tenure for Professors, but interesting family dynamics (none, or age of children) does play a role.
Author	DejaBoo
Upvotes	6
Comments	21
Date	June 13, 2012 6:22 PM UTC (14 years ago)
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