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Wolfinger, Nicholas H. | Alone in the ivory tower: how birth events vary among male and female fast-track professionals | We use data from the 2000 Census Public Use Microsample to examine the likelihood of a birth event, defined as the household presence of a child under two years old, for male and female professionals. Physicians have the highest rate of birth events, followed in order by attorneys and academics. W... | Fertility; Family; Occupation; Academic careers; Census | 2009-06-10 |
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Wolfinger, Nicholas H. | Dispelling the pipeline myth: gender, family formation, and alternative trajectories in the academic life course | Academic careers have traditionally been conceptualized as pipelines, through which young scholars move continuously from graduate school to tenure-track positions. This understanding often fails to capture the experiences of female Ph.D. recipients, who take ladder-rank assistant professorships at ... | Careers, academic; Tenure; Teaching, higher education; Employment | 2006-07-20 |
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Wolfinger, Nicholas H. | Problems in the pipeline: gender, marriage, and fertility in the ivory tower | Women have traditionally fared worse than men in the workplace. In few places has this been more apparent than higher education (Jacobs, 1996). In 2003, women received 47% of PhDs awarded (National Center for Education Statistics [NCES], 2005a) but comprised only 35% of tenured or tenure-track fac... | Family; Career; Marital Status | 2008 |
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