1,509
Views
5
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Having it all, or avoiding black holes? Career–family strategies and the choice between leaving or staying in academia among Swedish PhDs

Pages 576-592 | Received 31 Oct 2019, Accepted 29 May 2020, Published online: 14 Jun 2020

References

  • Academy of Finland. (1998). Women in academia. Report of the working group appointed by the academy of Finland.
  • Becker, G. (1981/1991). A treatise on the family. Harvard University Press.
  • Becker, G. (1985). Human capital, effort and the sexual division of labor. Journal of Labor Economics, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1086/298075
  • Boye, K., & Evertsson, M. (2015). Who does what when? The development of the time spent on housework by women and men in Sweden, SPaDE Working Paper Series 2015:1.
  • Brandén, M., & Haandriksman, K. (2019). Who moves to whom? Gender differences in the distance moved to shared residence. European Journal of Population, 35(3), 435–458. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10680-018-9490-4
  • Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2013). Successful qualitative research. A practical guide for beginners. Sage.
  • Danell, R., & Hjerm, M. (2012). Career prospects for female university researchers have not improved. Scientometrics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-012-0840-4
  • Edlund, J., & Öun, I. (2016). Who should work and who should care? Attitudes towards the desirable division of labour between mothers and fathers in five European countries. Acta Sociologica, 59(2), 151–169. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001699316631024
  • Eltzkowitz, H., & Ranga, M. (2011). Gender dynamics in science and technology: From the ‘leaky pipeline’ to the ‘vanish box’. Brussels Economic Review, 54(2-3), 131–147.
  • Estévez-Abe, M. (2005). Gender bias in skills and social policies: The varieties of capitalism perspectives on sex segregation. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 12(2), 180–215. https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxi011
  • European Commission. (2003). Researchers in the European research area: One profession, multiple careers. Communication from the commission to the council and the European Parliament. COM(2003) 436 final. Brusells: European Commission.
  • European Commission. (2019). She figures 2018. Publications Office of the European Union.
  • Fox, M. F., & Stephan, P. E. (2001). Careers of young scientists. Preferences, prospects and realities by gender and field. Social Studies of Science, 31(1), 109–122. https://doi.org/10.1177/030631201031001006
  • González, A. M., & Räthzel, N. (2018). ‘You must aim high’ - ‘No, I never felt like a woman’: Women and men making sense of non-standard trajectories into higher education. The International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, 10(1), 1–17.
  • Grönlund, A., Halldén, K., & Magnusson, C. (2017). A scandinavian success story? Women’s labour market outcomes in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Acta Sociologica, 60(2), 97–119. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001699316660595
  • Grönlund, A., & Öun, I. (2018). In search of family-friendly careers? Professional strategies, work conditions and gender differences in work-family conflict. Community, Work and Family, 21(1), 87–105. https://doi.org/10.1080/13668803.2017.1375460
  • Hook, J. L. (2006). Care in context: Men's unpaid work in 20 countries, 1965–2003. American Sociological Review, 71(4), 639–660. https://doi.org/10.1177/000312240607100406
  • HSV. (2010). Doktorsexaminerades etablering på arbetsmarknaden Rapport 2010:21 R. Stockholm: Högskoleverket.
  • Husu, L. (2001). Sexism, support and survival in academia: Academic women and hidden discrimination in Finland. Department of Social Psychology.
  • Korpi, W., Ferrarini, T., & Englund, S. (2013). Women’ s opportunities under different family policy constellations: Gender, class, and inequality tradeoffs in western countries re-examined. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 20(1), 1–40. https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxs028
  • Kyvik, S., & Olsen, T. B. (2007). Doktorgradsutdanning og karrieremuligheter. En undersøkelse blant to årskull doktorgradskandidater, Rapport 35/2007, NIFU STEP, Studies in Innovation, Research and Education. Olso: NIFU STEP.
  • Lohmann, H., & Zagel, H. (2016). Family policy in comparative perspective: The concepts and measurement of familization and defamilization. Journal of European Social Policy, 26(1), 48–65. https://doi.org/10.1177/0958928715621712
  • Magnusson, C. (2019). Flexible time – but is the time owned? Family friendly and family unfriendly work arrangements, occupational gender composition and wages: A test of the mother-friendly job hypothesis in Sweden. Community, Work & Family, on-line pre-publishing 2019-12-10.
  • Mandel, H., & Semoyonov, M. (2006). A welfare state paradox: State interventions and women’ s employment opportunities in 22 countries. American Journal of Sociology, 111(6), 1910–1949. https://doi.org/10.1086/499912
  • Mason, M. A., & Goulden, M. (2004). Marriage and baby blues: Redefining gender equity in the academy. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 596(1), 86–103. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716204268744
  • OECD. (2019). Education at a glance 2019 OECD indicators. OECD Publishing.
  • Öquist, G., & Bennert, M. (2012). Fostering breakthrough research. A comparative study. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
  • Polachek, S. W. (2004). How the human capital model explains why the gender wage gap narrowed. IZA Discussion Paper No. 1102.
  • Preston, A. (1994). Why have all the women gone? A study of exit of women from the science and engineering professions. The American Economic Review, 84(5), 1446–1462.
  • Rees, T. (2001). Mainstreaming gender equality in science in the European Union: The ETAN report. Gender and Education, 13(3), 243–260. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540250120063544
  • Saxonberg, S. (2013). From defamilialization to degenderization: Toward a new welfare typology. Social Policy and Administration, 47(1), 26–49. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9515.2012.00836.x
  • Silander, C. (2010). Pyramider och pipelines Om högskolesystemets påverkan på jämställdhet i högskolan. Linnaeus university press.
  • Sonnert, G., & Holton, G. (2006). Who succeeds in science? The gender dimension. Rutgers University Press.
  • UKÄ. (2018). Tidsbegränsade anställningar bland högskolans forskande och undervisande personal. Rapport 2018:11. Stockholm: Universitetskanslerämbetet.
  • UKÄ. (2020). Retrieved April 9, 2020, from https://www.uka.se/statistik–analys/statistikdatabas-hogskolan-i-siffror.
  • Weisgram, E. S., & Diekman, A. B. (2017). Making STEM “family Friendly”: The impact of perceiving science careers as family-compatible. Social Sciences, 6(61).
  • Williams, J. C. (2005). The glass ceiling and the maternal wall in academia. New Directions for Higher Education, 2005(130), 91–105. https://doi.org/10.1002/he.181
  • Wolfinger, N. H., Mason, M. A., & Coulden, M. (2009). Stay in the game: Gender, family formation and alternative trajectories in the academic life course. Social Forces, 87(3). https://doi.org/10.1353/sof.0.0182