Retaining Female Postgraduates in Academia: The Role of Gender and Prospective Parenthood

Autor/inn/en	Crabb, Shona; Ekberg, Stuart
Titel	Retaining Female Postgraduates in Academia: The Role of Gender and Prospective Parenthood
Quelle	In: Higher Education Research and Development, 33 (2014) 6, S.1099-1112 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0729-4360
DOI	10.1080/07294360.2014.911251
Schlagwörter	Females; Gender Differences; Mothers; Graduate Students; Student Attitudes; Qualitative Research; Foreign Countries; Questionnaires; Disproportionate Representation; Role; Family Work Relationship; Career Choice; College Faculty; Parents; Higher Education; Sex Fairness; Career Planning; Online Surveys; Statistical Analysis; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Geschlechterkonflikt; Mother; Mutter; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Schülerverhalten; Qualitative Forschung; Ausland; Fragebogen; Rollen; Fakultät; Eltern; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Sexualaufklärung; Karriereplanung; Statistische Analyse; Australien
Abstract	Women remain under-represented in almost all academic levels at universities internationally, and previous evidence has suggested that women move out of the university system in increasing numbers as they progress from postgraduate study to an academic career. The current study aimed to explore the role of gender in the reports of study experiences and future career plans of Australian postgraduate research students (n?=?249). Questionnaire data indicated women were significantly less likely than men to rate an academic career as appealing. In particular, female postgraduate students without dependent children were least likely to want to pursue an academic career. On the basis of qualitative analysis, we attribute this finding, at least in part, to a perceived incompatibility between motherhood and an academic career and discuss the implications for gender equity in higher education. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10