Progression through Academic Ranks: A Longitudinal Examination of Internal Promotion Drivers

Dobele, Angela R.; Rundle-Theile, Sharyn

doi:10.1111/hequ.12081

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“…Importantly, all three variables are significant at least at a 5% level when they are included alone in the model. Another study finds that the number of publications is important for academic progression, but grants obtained are not [20], probably due to the two variables being correlated, although it does not consider this as a possible explanation for this counterintuitive result.…”

Section: Phd Publications Grants and Area Of Researchmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Publications are typically considered a key factor for academic progression. In general, publications have a positive association with rank and promotion [13,14,[17][18][19][20], although there is also some evidence that male economists on tenure-track positions get tenure regardless of their publications (p. 203 [14]). At the same time, on average men produce more publications than women, and this is found across different disciplines [12,14,17,[21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28], although the results reported in [13] suggest very small differences.…”

Section: Previous Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Notwithstanding all of the above, lower grant application activity and lower number of publications in absolute and relative terms may be explained not just by time constraints due to housework or childcare but also by time constraints imposed in the very workplace, for example, with higher teaching or administrative workloads [3,18,20,22,23,25,27]. Higher teaching or administrative workloads on women could be the result of subtle discrimination.…”

Section: Previous Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…If you have two jobs, please provide the detailed information only for your main job as a percentage of your total hours in that job. Career and education history 20. Please indicate which was your main activity in each of the last 10 academic years.…”

Section: Current Employment Conditions and Workloadmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Gender and Academic Rank in the UK

Santos

Phu

2019

Sustainability

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This paper fills in a research gap in what concerns gender and academic rank at UK universities, where women are not far from reaching the 50% share of all academic and research staff, but not even close to reaching such a share at (full) professorial level. Using an ordered logit model and the results of a survey conducted in 2013 with 2270 responses from academics from all fields of knowledge at the 24 Russell Group universities, we find three consistent results. First, being a woman has a negative and significant association with academic rank, except for the case when parenthood is timed with career considerations in mind. Second, the percentage of time spent on teaching and teaching-related activities has a negative and statistically significant association with academic rank. This association is more pronounced in the case of women, who spend a higher percentage of their working time on teaching and teaching-related activities than men, as do those in lower academic ranks. Since women tend to be in lower ranks, the percentage of time spent on teaching and teaching-related activities may be considered both a cause and a result of the gender gap. Third, we find a positive and significant association between the number of children under the age of 18 years and the academic rank of both men and women, as long as babies were timed with career considerations in mind, and a non-significant association when they were not. A possible explanation for this is unlikely to be that children have a positive impact on academic rank, but rather that they arrived after a certain rank had been secured. We conclude with some policy recommendations to help reduce the gender gap.Sustainability 2019, 11, 3171 2 of 46 not limited to, respondent's year of birth, number of children, responsibility for household chores, academic degrees, number of publications, grants, percentage of working time spent on teaching and teaching-related activities, and main area of research. This is timely and relevant, given that the last empirical quantitative study to include UK-based academics of all fields of knowledge was conducted in the year 2000; the results of that study are reported in [3].We find some results in line with previous work conducted for other countries or for specific fields of knowledge and some novel ones. First, being a woman has a negative association with academic rank, even after controlling for year of birth (i.e., age), marital status, responsibility for household chores, area of research, timing of babies, number of children under the age of 18 years, holding a PhD or not, percentage of working time spent on teaching and teaching-related activities, and a number of research productivity variables. The only case where the variable gender is not significant is when only men and women who timed their children with career considerations in mind are included in the sample. Importantly, we also find that the percentage of time spent on teaching and teaching-related activities, which is higher for women than for men, is negati...

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Section: Phd Publications Grants and Area Of Researchmentioning

confidence: 95%

Section: Previous Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Previous Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Current Employment Conditions and Workloadmentioning

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Gender and Academic Rank in the UK

Santos

Phu

2019

Sustainability

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“…Typical themes include the participation of the girl-child in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) [10][11][12] , women scientists' representation and performance in STEM occupations [13][14][15][16] , gender differences with regard to remuneration and promotion practices 17,18 , and women's access to technologies 19,20 , to mention a few.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Women’s representation in national science academies: An unsettling narrative

Ngila¹,

Boshoff²,

Henry³

et al. 2017

S. Afr. J. Sci.

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Science academies are well placed to contribute towards strengthening of national systems of innovation through advocating for an increased participation of girls and women in science. To successfully do so, academies would need to overcome challenges faced with regard to women’s representation in their own ranks and women’s resultant full participation in the activities of national science academies. We collected baseline data on the representation of women scientists in the membership and governance structures of national science academies that are affiliated with IAP: the Global Network of Science Academies. Women academy members remained far below parity with men, given that women’s membership was typically about 12%. Women members were better represented in the social sciences, humanities and arts but the corresponding shares rarely exceeded 20%. In the natural sciences and engineering, women’s membership remained well below 10%. On average, the largest share of women members (17%) was associated with academies in Latin America and the Caribbean. The average share of women serving on governing bodies was 20%. To change this unsettling narrative, the importance of academies of science annually collecting, analysing and reporting gender-disaggregated data on membership and activities is highlighted as a key recommendation. Several aspects of women’s representation and participation in national science academies are highlighted for further investigation.

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Cruel Measures: Gendered Excellence in Research

Lipton

2020

Academic Women in Neoliberal Times

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Progression through Academic Ranks: A Longitudinal Examination of Internal Promotion Drivers

Cited by 22 publications

References 37 publications

Gender and Academic Rank in the UK

Gender and Academic Rank in the UK

Women’s representation in national science academies: An unsettling narrative

Cruel Measures: Gendered Excellence in Research

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