Career Outcomes in a Matched Sample of Men and Women Ph.D.s: An Analytical Report

摘要

The project was designed to determine whether the sex differences in career outcomes of Ph.D.s observed in earlier studies diminish or disappear when males and females in a sample are closely matched by education, experience, and type of employment. The sample included more than 5,000 triads (one woman and two men), members of which were matched according to several characteristics so that one could compare the career outcomes of a set who 'started out together' with similar qualifications at the time of the Ph.D. and who had accumulated the same number of years of professional experience by 1979. The study focused on the academic sector.