TY - JOUR
T1 - Scientists' participation in university research centers
T2 - What are the gender differences?
AU - Corley, Elizabeth
AU - Gaughan, Monica
N1 - Funding Information:
Nonwhite Center affiliation Female Career event Tenure track year Tenured Full professor Activity hours per week Writing grant proposals Grant supported research Unfunded research Administering grants Teaching Teaching undergraduates Teaching graduate students No. of female graduate students No.of male graduate students Service hours per week Professional service University service Paid consulting Colleagues No. of female collaborators No. of male collaborators Colleagues appreciate me I am satisfied with my job I am paid what I am worth
PY - 2005/10
Y1 - 2005/10
N2 - University-affiliated multidisciplinary research centers have grown in importance in academia. Most research to-date has focused on these centers from an institutional perspective, with recent work only beginning to explore the ways in which such centers affect the development of academic careers. Hence, little is known about how scientists who are center-affiliated differ from those who are not affiliated. Clearly, both selection and influence effects may be expected to operate in terms of research productivity, timing, and resources. A further puzzle is how center affiliation may differ between male and female scientists. In this study, we use a new, nationally representative dataset of scientists and engineers working in Carnegie Research Extensive universities to develop an understanding of how center-affiliated scientists differ from exclusively department-based academic scientists and engineers, and investigate the extent to which gender moderates the effects of centers. As expected, our national sample shows that women are younger, whiter, less likely to be tenured, and at a lower rank than their male colleagues. We find that women are as likely to join centers as men, and do so at a similar stage in their career. Most of the male-female differences observed in disciplinary settings are sustained in centers, but women appear to have greater research equality in them (compared to the departmental setting). In particular, men and women in centers spend the same amount of time writing grant proposals, conducting both grant-supported and unfunded research, and administering grants. This suggests that centers may constitute an institutional context in which some aspects of gender equity in science may be achieved.
AB - University-affiliated multidisciplinary research centers have grown in importance in academia. Most research to-date has focused on these centers from an institutional perspective, with recent work only beginning to explore the ways in which such centers affect the development of academic careers. Hence, little is known about how scientists who are center-affiliated differ from those who are not affiliated. Clearly, both selection and influence effects may be expected to operate in terms of research productivity, timing, and resources. A further puzzle is how center affiliation may differ between male and female scientists. In this study, we use a new, nationally representative dataset of scientists and engineers working in Carnegie Research Extensive universities to develop an understanding of how center-affiliated scientists differ from exclusively department-based academic scientists and engineers, and investigate the extent to which gender moderates the effects of centers. As expected, our national sample shows that women are younger, whiter, less likely to be tenured, and at a lower rank than their male colleagues. We find that women are as likely to join centers as men, and do so at a similar stage in their career. Most of the male-female differences observed in disciplinary settings are sustained in centers, but women appear to have greater research equality in them (compared to the departmental setting). In particular, men and women in centers spend the same amount of time writing grant proposals, conducting both grant-supported and unfunded research, and administering grants. This suggests that centers may constitute an institutional context in which some aspects of gender equity in science may be achieved.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10961-005-2582-4
DO - 10.1007/s10961-005-2582-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:24144476327
SN - 0892-9912
VL - 30
SP - 371
EP - 381
JO - Journal of Technology Transfer
JF - Journal of Technology Transfer
IS - 4
ER -