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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

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...

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Autores principales: Sieverding, Monika, Eib, Constanze, Neubauer, Andreas B., Stahl, Thomas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6112653/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30153285
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202728