The impact of postdoc training on academic research productivity: what are the gender differences?

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Audience/Grade: Graduate-Professional Development
Discipline(s): Computing Diversity
Engineering Diversity
Engineering Education Research
General
General Engineering, Engineering Science
Technology and Society
Special Topic(s): Academic Careers and Issues
Learning Resource Type: Reference - Article/Document
Media Type: Audio
Author(s): Xuhong Su
Yu Meng
Description: Paper presented at the Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy, 2009. Abstract: "This study examines how postdoc training affects scientists’ research productivity in their early career years (the first three years after receiving their doctoral degrees), in an attempt to reveal whether postdoc training contributes to enforce women’s lower productivity that has been well documented in the general S&E community . Using a nationally representative sam- ple of academic scientists and engineering from research extensive universities (n=150), the study demonstrates that postdoc training boosts individual productivity in scientists’ first three years; and the number of publications male scientists produce in the same period continues to outnumber that of female members. However, postdoc training, among these academic scientists and engineers, does not worsen women’s disadvantageous status in productivity, and plays a neutral role in shaping individual productivity across the gender line."
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Keywords: gender equity  women in science  women in engineering  family-friendly  polcy 
References: Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering
   
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Study with mixed results. They confirm that postdoc programs help both men and women, but not clear that more female-targeted programs will increase numbers.
   
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Publication Date: January 2010
Platform/Format: WWW
Cost: Free
Download URL: http://conferences.library.gatech.edu/acsip/index.php/acsip09/atl
Metadata: IEEE LOM Record
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