Female professors ‘pay price for academic citizenship’

Women in academia may be losing out salary-wise because they are more focused on tasks that may go unrewarded, a study suggests

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December 14, 2016
Last updated
February 16, 2017
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It would benefit everyone if administrators put a monetary value on those non-research, administrative/leadership duties. Research does show how important mentorship is to young scholars.
It's not only men that prioritise the 'glory' tasks - some women do it too. And vice versa, some men do prioritise those tasks that don't bring monetary rewards and esteem. There definitely ought to be more recognition for pastoral roles - but also wider dissemination of these time-consuming but relatively straightforward tasks.
"Based on interviews with 25 female and five male professors at nine UK universities, the two researchers found that female professors tended to talk about the broader demands of their departmental chair, whereas male interviewees focused far more on the need to win research grants." A sample of 30 with only 5 males. Are these people actually qualified to do research?

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