An advisor like me? Advisor gender and post-graduate careers in science

0490197 - NHU-C 2019 RIV NL eng J - Journal Article
Gaulé, Patrick - Piacentini, M.
An advisor like me? Advisor gender and post-graduate careers in science.
Research Policy. Roč. 47, č. 4 (2018), s. 805-813. ISSN 0048-7333. E-ISSN 1873-7625
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA16-05082S
Institutional support: Progres-Q24
Keywords : gender * role models * universities
OECD category: Applied Economics, Econometrics
Impact factor: 5.425, year: 2018

We investigate whether having an advisor of the same gender is correlated with the productivity of PhD science students and their propensity to stay in academic science. Our analysis is based an original dataset – combined from dissertation abstracts, faculty directories and bibliometric data – covering nearly 20,000 PhD graduates and their advisors from U.S. chemistry departments. We find that students working with advisors of the same gender tend to be more productive during the PhD, and that female students working with female advisors are considerably more likely to become faculty themselves. We suggest that the under-representation of women in science and engineering faculty positions may perpetuate itself through the lower availability of same-gender advisors for female students.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0284477