Gender differences between faculty members in higher education: A literature review of selected higher education journals

MG Cama, ML Jorge, FJA Peña - Educational Research Review, 2016 - Elsevier
Gender issues in higher educational institutions have attracted increasing levels of attention
from researchers in recent decades. As a result, many studies have called for greater gender …

Why students choose STEM majors: Motivation, high school learning, and postsecondary context of support

X Wang - American educational research journal, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
This study draws upon social cognitive career theory and higher education literature to test a
conceptual framework for understanding the entrance into science, technology, engineering …

Family or future in the academy?

S Ahmad - Review of Educational Research, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
This article critically reviews recent literature on the relationship between family formation
and academic-career progression, emphasizing obstacles women face seeking a tenured …

[图书][B] Do babies matter? Gender and family in the ivory tower

MA Mason, NH Wolfinger, M Goulden - 2019 - degruyter.com
The new generation of scholars differs in many ways from its predecessor of just a few
decades ago. Academia once consisted largely of men in traditional single-earner families …

Academic air travel has a limited influence on professional success

S Wynes, SD Donner, S Tannason, N Nabors - Journal of cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
Lowering the growth in greenhouse gas emissions from air travel may be critical for avoiding
dangerous levels of climate change, and yet some individuals perceive frequent air travel to …

[图书][B] Academic motherhood: How faculty manage work and family

K Ward, L Wolf-Wendel - 2012 - books.google.com
Academic Motherhood tells the story of over one hundred women who are both professors
and mothers and examines how they navigated their professional lives at different career …

Problems in the pipeline: Gender, marriage, and fertility in the ivory tower

NH Wolfinger, MA Mason… - The Journal of higher …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Women have traditionally fared worse than men in the workplace. In few places has this
been more apparent than higher education (Jacobs, 1996). In 2003, women received 47 …

Transnational academic mobility and gender

H Jöns - Globalisation, societies and education, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
This paper examines to what extent the participation of researchers in transnational
academic mobility, their experiences and perceived outcomes vary by gender. Based on …

Stay in the game: Gender, family formation and alternative trajectories in the academic life course

NH Wolfinger, MA Mason, M Goulden - Social forces, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Academic careers have traditionally been conceptualized as pipelines, through which young
scholars move seamlessly from graduate school to tenure-track positions. This model often …

A gender perspective on the global migration of scholars

X Zhao, A Akbaritabar, R Kashyap… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Although considerable progress toward gender equality in science has been made in recent
decades, female researchers continue to face significant barriers in the academic labor …