Journal article
Gendered Career Decisions in the Academy: Job Refusal and Job Departure Intentions among Academic Dual-Career Couples
Review of higher education, Vol.42(4), pp.1723-1754
06/01/2019
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/124028
Abstract
We investigated the extent to which dual-career academics' job-related decisions considered the career of their partner with close attention to the relevance of gender in the process. Analyses using survey data from faculty in seven U.S. universities found that among those recruited to the university first (primary recruits), women who perceived their career as primary compared to that of their partner were more likely than men to have considered refusing their job offer if their partner had not found appropriate employment. Furthermore, regardless of the importance of their career relative to that of their partner's, women were more likely than men to have contemplated leaving their current job had their partner not found suitable employment. Our findings highlighted the potential for effective dual-career hiring policies to promote gender diversification of the academy.
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- Title
- Gendered Career Decisions in the Academy: Job Refusal and Job Departure Intentions among Academic Dual-Career Couples
- Creators
- Hong Zhang - Sun Yat-sen UniversityJulie A Kmec - Washington State UniversityTori Byington - Univ Oregon, Grad Sch, Eugene, OR 97403 USA
- Publication Details
- Review of higher education, Vol.42(4), pp.1723-1754
- Academic Unit
- Sociology, Department of
- Publisher
- JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS
- Number of pages
- 32
- Grant note
- 1310049 / National Science Foundation
- Identifiers
- 99900669211501842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article