Even With Tenure, Women Are More Likely to Leave Higher Ed
October 23, 2023
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https://www.chronicle.com/article/even-with-tenure-women-are-more-likely-to-lea…
[...] Even when men and women leave at the same rate, their reasons for doing so are gendered: Early-career women are more likely to leave due to issues with work-life balance, while women later in their careers are more likely to leave because of a hostile work environment. Men tend to cite professional reasons, such as a lack of resources or support. [...] Women were more likely to leave their faculty roles than men at every career stage, and the gap grew wider at the top of the ladder. At the assistant-professor level, women were 6 percent more likely to leave than men. Among full professors, that figure was 19 percent.