Asks the question, if women are now receiving doctoral degrees in relatively equal numbers to men, can we anticipate nearly equal tenure achievement in the next decade? Uses data from the PhDs – Ten Years Later national survey to show that in fields where there are strong non-academic labor markets, women have equal chances of getting tenure to their male counterparts. However, in fields where most PhDs work in academia, men have better chances of tenure than women.
Aanerud, R., Morrison, E., Home, L., Rudd, E., Nerad, M., & Cerny, J. (2007). Widening the Lens on Gender and Tenure: Looking Beyond the Academic Labor Market, NWSA Journal, Vol 19. No. 3 , pp. 105-123.
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