April 27, 2007
Alienation Harms Female Professors, Study Finds
At every stage of the career pipeline, women are more likely than men to abandon academic careers. Not surprisingly, several studies have found — again, at every stage of the career pipeline — that female faculty members feel less job satisfaction than their male colleagues do.
That gender gap in job satisfaction is often discussed in terms of women's frustration with salaries, course loads, and husbands who don't do their share of child care and domestic work.
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