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Waaijer CJF, Sonneveld H, Buitendijk SE, et al. The role of gender in the employment, career perception and research performance of recent PhD graduates from Dutch universities. 2016;doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0164784.
Waaijer, C. J. F., Sonneveld, H., Buitendijk, S. E., Van Bochove, C. A., & Van Der Weijden, I. C. M. (2016). The role of gender in the employment, career perception and research performance of recent PhD graduates from Dutch universities. . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0164784
Waaijer, C J F, et al. "The role of gender in the employment, career perception and research performance of recent PhD graduates from Dutch universities." vol. (2016). doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0164784
Waaijer CJF, Sonneveld H, Buitendijk SE, Van Bochove CA, Van Der Weijden ICM. The role of gender in the employment, career perception and research performance of recent PhD graduates from Dutch universities. 2016; doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0164784. UIID-AD: 4318.
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2016; doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0164784.

The role of gender in the employment, career perception and research performance of recent PhD graduates from Dutch universities.

C J F Waaijer, H Sonneveld, S E Buitendijk, C A Van Bochove, I C M Van Der Weijden

UIID-AD: 4318 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0164784

Abstract

Recent decades have seen a sharp increase in the number of female PhD graduates in the Netherlands. Currently, the share of females among newly graduated PhDs is almost on par with that of males. A considerable body of scientific studies has investigated the role of gender in the academic workplace. However, the role of gender in the careers of all PhD graduates, including those outside academia, has been studied less. In this study, we investigate gender differences in type of job, occupation, career perception and research performance of recent PhDs. The study is based on a survey of persons who obtained a PhD from one of five Dutch universities between 2008 and early 2012. We show that gender differences in post-PhD careers are non-existent in some aspects studied, but there are small differences in other aspects, such as sector of employment, type of contract, involvement in teaching and management, and career perception. In contrast, male and female PhDs differ sharply on two factors. The first is field of PhD, females being heavily underrepresented in engineering and the natural sciences. The second is part-time employment, females being much more likely to work part-time than males, especially if they work in the Netherlands. In later career stages, the combination of the small and large differences can be presumed to affect the career progression of female PhDs through cumulative disadvantage. © 2016 Waaijer et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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