308 Citations
Mothers of Invention?
- Economics
- 2011
Gender and motherhood dynamics feature prominently in research that examines professional workplace inequities. The rise of patenting as an available form of academic productivity presents a fruitful…
Balancing Parenthood and Academia
- Psychology
- 2005
The present research investigated the influence of gender and tenure status in academicians’ experiences of balancing parenthood and an academic career. Men (n = 85) and women (n = 179) employed…
Gender, Children and Research Productivity
- Education
- 2004
The “productivity puzzle,” or gender gap in research productivity, is often thought to be due, in part, to gendered child care responsibilities. The time, energy, and money devoted to child-rearing…
Family and Career Trajectories among African American Female Attorneys
- History
- 2003
Professional African American women are vastly understudied in sociology. We address that omission by examining how the intersection of race with the structure of elite, male-dominated occupations…
The nexus between family and work roles of academic women in Israel: Reality and representation
- Psychology
- 1991
This study examines the relationships between family responsibilities and scientific and scholarly productivity of women in academia. It is commonly believed that faculty women are less productive…
Greater Male Variability in Creativity Outside the WEIRD World
- Psychology
- 2016
Recent studies in creativity literature have demonstrated higher variability of creative ability between males and females, despite the lack of systematic sex differences in average scores on…
Socio-Cultural Factors to Breaking through the Glass Ceiling: A Case Study of University of Ghana, Legon
- Education
- 2014
The study looked at socio-cultural factors that impede women faculty career progress. A total of 142 faculties made up of 33 females and 109 males were sampled for the study using a stratified…
Silent voices, untold stories : perceptions of female students towards their own experiences and higher educational opportunities in Peshawar, Khyber Pukhtunkhwah (KP) (Pakistan)
- Education
- 2014
The aim of this thesis is to investigate factors relating to the low level of women’s participation in higher education in Khyber Pukhtunkhwah (KP) a particularly conservative and traditionalist…
Penalties and premiums: The impact of gender, marriage, and parenthood on faculty salaries in science, engineering and mathematics (SEM) and non-SEM fields
- Psychology
- 2012
The prevalence of gender wage gaps in academic work is well documented, but patterns of advantage or disadvantage linked to marital, motherhood, and fatherhood statuses have been less explored among…
Disparities in publication patterns by gender, race and ethnicity based on a survey of a random sample of authors
- EducationScientometrics
- 2012
Examination of gender and racial disparities in publishing in publishing finds that at every career level and within each discipline, women were under-represented in academic positions compared to men and an even lower percentage of women published at each academic level than were employed at that level.