Protégé-advisor gender pairings in academic survival and productivity of German PhD graduates
Publication type
conference paper
Publication date
2021
Author(s)
Rehs, A.
Language
English
View point(s)
Institutional
PhD Level
Geographical area
Abstract
Female underrepresentation is a severe problem in academia and challenges the principle of merit-based selection. Previous studies have found protégé-advisor gender pairings to be associated with scientific survival and early career productivity for young scientists. In this study, I add to these results and focus on the disentanglement of temporal patterns after completing a PhD. I link a dataset of German protégé-advisor pairs scraped from online dissertations with disambiguated publication data from the Web of Science. My analysis is based upon time-discrete survival regression and explores the duration until the final publication after completing a PhD. I show that for protégés of female advisors, the yearly risk to drop out of academia after completing a PhD is about 38% lower than for protégés of male advisors. This effect is not different between female and male protégés. Women generally have a higher yearly dropout rate after completing a PhD. © 2021 18th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, ISSI 2021. All rights reserved.
ISBN
978-90-803282-2-8
Pagination
955-965