“…When it comes to returning to the home country or entering a profession, including the academic profession, the gender of the PhD students and graduates plays a central role. The choices and decisions of female PhD students and graduates are guided by constraints that do not seem to affect their male counterparts to the same extent (see the articles by Liu et al., 2023 and Chen et al., 2023). Mobility and adaptation are concerns guiding the decision‐making of PhD students and graduates, and the findings show that they establish strategies to make sure they can cope and eventually succeed (see the articles by Ge, 2023; Liu & Li, 2023).…”