Can lifestyle preferences help explain the persistent gender gap in academia? The "mothers work less" hypothesis supported for German but not for U.S. early career researchers.

Autor/inn/en	Sieverding, Monika; Eib, Constanze; Neubauer, Andreas B.; Stahl, Thomas
Titel	Can lifestyle preferences help explain the persistent gender gap in academia? The "mothers work less" hypothesis supported for German but not for U.S. early career researchers. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Können Präferenzen bezüglich des Lebensstils die anhaltenden Geschlechterdifferenzen in der Wissenschaft erklären? Die Hypothese 'Mütter arbeiten weniger' bestätigt sich für Nachwuchswissenschaftler in Deutschland, aber nicht in den USA.
Quelle	In: PLOS ONE, 13 (2018) 8, Art. e0202728, 18 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1932-6203
DOI	10.1371/journal.pone.0202728
Schlagwörter	Psychischer Faktor; Familie; Mutter; Vater; Arbeitsproduktivität; Arbeitszeitwunsch; Beruf; Beruflicher Aufstieg; Individuelle Arbeitszeit; Nachwuchs; Hochschullehrer; Kultureller Bereich; Internationaler Vergleich; Geschlechterverteilung; Geschlechtsspezifik; Lebensweise; Präferenz; Berufsanfänger; Berufsnachwuchs; Wissenschaftler; Deutschland; USA
Abstract	"Do lifestyle preferences contribute to the remaining gender gap in higher positions in academia with highly qualified women -- especially those with children -- deliberately working fewer hours than men do? We tested the 'mothers work less' hypothesis in two samples of early career researchers employed at universities in Germany (N = 202) and in the US (N = 197). Early career researchers in the US worked on average 6.3 hours more per week than researchers in Germany. In Germany, female early career researchers with children had drastically reduced work hours (around 8 hours per week) compared to male researchers with children and compared to female researchers without children, whereas we found no such effect for U.S. researchers. In addition, we asked how long respondents would ideally want to work (ideal work hours), and results revealed similar effects for ideal work hours. Results support the 'mothers work less' hypothesis for German but not for U.S. early career researchers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2019/1