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- Title
Gendered Career Decisions in the Academy: Job Refusal and Job Departure Intentions among Academic Dual-Career Couples.
- Authors
Zhang, Hong; Kmec, Julie A.; Byington, Tori
- Abstract
We investigated the extent to which dual-career academics' jobrelated decisions considered the career of their partner with close attention to the relevance of gender in the process. Analyses using survey data from faculty in seven U.S. universities found that among those recruited to the university first (primary recruits), women who perceived their career as primary compared to that of their partner were more likely than men to have considered refusing their job offer if their partner had not found appropriate employment. [End Page 1723] Furthermore, regardless of the importance of their career relative to that of their partner's, women were more likely than men to have contemplated leaving their current job had their partner not found suitable employment. Our findings highlighted the potential for effective dual-career hiring policies to promote gender diversification of the academy.
- Subjects
EMPLOYMENT of students; CAREER development; ACADEMIC achievement; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; DATA analysis
- Publication
Review of Higher Education, 2019, Vol 42, Issue 4, p1723
- ISSN
0162-5748
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/rhe.2019.0081