Social inequalities in postdoctoral dropout from academia by gender, parental academic background, and migration background, and their intersections

2024/01/01 by Lea Goldan, Aaron Bohlen, Christiane Groß · 1 voice
Health Professions · Medicine · Social Sciences · #Diversity and Career in Medicine #Global Health Workforce Issues #Health and Medical Research Impacts

paper · pdf · doi:10.5771/9783748925590-130

openalex publication_date 2024/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/22

Abstract

Academic careers should be independent of social characteristics. However, empirical evidence on social inequalities in German academia is ambiguous, and research explicitly on intersectional inequalities in academic careers is scarce.

Citations

• The Complexity of Intersectionality
• Intersectionality as Method: A Note
• Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations

Discussions

• Two papers with counter-intuitive findings: Goldan et al. find no social inequalities in postdoctoral dropout from academia (1). Habicht et al. find that women have a 48% higher chance of obtaining a [bsky, 2 points, 0 comments]

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