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The unequal impact of parenthood in academia.
Morgan, Allison C; Way, Samuel F; Hoefer, Michael J D; Larremore, Daniel B; Galesic, Mirta; Clauset, Aaron.
Afiliação
  • Morgan AC; Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA. allison.morgan@colorado.edu aaron.clauset@colorado.edu.
  • Way SF; Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
  • Hoefer MJD; Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
  • Larremore DB; Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
  • Galesic M; BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
  • Clauset A; Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA.
Sci Adv ; 7(9)2021 02.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33627417
ABSTRACT
Across academia, men and women tend to publish at unequal rates. Existing explanations include the potentially unequal impact of parenthood on scholarship, but a lack of appropriate data has prevented its clear assessment. Here, we quantify the impact of parenthood on scholarship using an extensive survey of the timing of parenthood events, longitudinal publication data, and perceptions of research expectations among 3064 tenure-track faculty at 450 Ph.D.-granting computer science, history, and business departments across the United States and Canada, along with data on institution-specific parental leave policies. Parenthood explains most of the gender productivity gap by lowering the average short-term productivity of mothers, even as parents tend to be slightly more productive on average than nonparents. However, the size of productivity penalty for mothers appears to have shrunk over time. Women report that paid parental leave and adequate childcare are important factors in their recruitment and retention. These results have broad implications for efforts to improve the inclusiveness of scholarship.

Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2021 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2021 Tipo de documento: Article