Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering

ISSN for PRINT: 1072-8325

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2002, Volume8

Issue 3&4

172 pages

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Kristen Olson
Joint Program in Survey Methodology, University of Maryland, 1218 LeFrak Hall, College Park, MD 20742

Using a nationally representative sample of doctoral academic scientists and engineers, this study examines gender differences in the likelihood of having tenure and senior faculty ranks after controlling for academic age, field, doctoral origins, employing educational institution, productivity, postdoctoral positions, work activities, and family characteristics. Logistic regressions show that many of these controls are significant; that biology and employment at comprehensive universities have a gender-specific advantage for women; and that postdoctoral positions, teaching instead of doing administrative work, and having children have a gender-specific disadvantage. Although the statistical methods employed here do not reveal the exact nature of how gender inequities in science and engineering careers arise, the author suggests that they exist.

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