Academic careers and the gender gap / Maureen Baker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baker, Maureen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women college teachers.

Women in higher education.

Work and family.

Sex role in the work environment.

Universities and colleges--Social aspects.

Universities and colleges.

Physical Description:

viii, 208 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, [2012]

Summary:

Even though more women than men earn PhDs, women with PhDs hold only 20 percent of the more prestigious jobs in academia in the English speaking world. This study seeks to find out how the academic gender gap has changed over the past 40 years and how it has been perpetuated, demonstrating that academia has been influenced by the same global trends affecting other workplaces. Baker (sociology, University of Auckland, New Zealand) draws on interviews with men and women in academia to highlight unequal treatment of women and men in areas such as hours, appointments, and length of career. The author's analysis of structural, relational, and interpretive factors contributing to the academic gender gap shows similar patterns across five countries: the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. An appendix explains how the author's empirical research was conducted at a Western Canadian university in 1973 and at two New Zealand universities in 2008. The book is distributed in the US by the University of Washington Press and in Canada by the University of Toronto Press. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780774823968

0774823968

OCLC:

795624614