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Survival Analysis of Faculty Retention and Promotion in the Social Sciences by Gender

PloS one, 2015-11, Vol.10 (11), p.e0143093-e0143093 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Title:
Survival Analysis of Faculty Retention and Promotion in the Social Sciences by Gender
Author: Box-Steffensmeier, Janet M ; Cunha, Raphael C ; Varbanov, Roumen A ; Hoh, Yee Shwen ; Knisley, Margaret L ; Holmes, Mary Alice
Larivière, Vincent
Subjects: Analysis ; Author productivity ; Career advancement ; Career Mobility ; Careers ; Employee retention ; Faculty - statistics & numerical data ; Female ; Females ; Gender aspects ; Gender differences ; Gender equity ; Heterogeneity ; Humans ; International relations ; Male ; Political science ; Politics ; Promotion ; Proportional Hazards Models ; Psychological aspects ; Recruitment ; Retention ; Scientists ; Sex differences ; Sex Factors ; Social sciences ; Social Sciences - manpower ; Statistical analysis ; Studies ; Survival ; Survival analysis ; Teaching ; Tenure ; United States ; Universities - manpower ; Women
Is Part Of: PloS one, 2015-11, Vol.10 (11), p.e0143093-e0143093
Description: Recruitment and retention of talent is central to the research performance of universities. Existing research shows that, while men are more likely than women to be promoted at the different stages of the academic career, no such difference is found when it comes to faculty retention rates. Current research on faculty retention, however, focuses on careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). We extend this line of inquiry to the social sciences. We follow 2,218 tenure-track assistant professors hired since 1990 in seven social science disciplines at nineteen U.S. universities from time of hire to time of departure. We also track their time to promotion to associate and full professor. Using survival analysis, we examine gender differences in time to departure and time to promotion. Our methods account for censoring and unobserved heterogeneity, as well as effect heterogeneity across disciplines and cohorts. We find no statistically significant differences between genders in faculty retention. However, we do find that men are more likely to be granted tenure than women. When it comes to promotion to full professor, the results are less conclusive, as the effect of gender is sensitive to model specification. The results corroborate previous findings about gender patterns in faculty retention and promotion. They suggest that advances have been made when it comes to gender equality in retention and promotion, but important differences still persist.
Publisher: United States: Public Library of Science
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1932-6203
EISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143093
PMID: 26580565
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