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Gender, family and academic careers in Turkey

Özcan, Berkay ORCID: 0000-0003-2255-9406 and Inanc, Hande (2016) Gender, family and academic careers in Turkey. Advances in Life Course Research, 29. pp. 52-65. ISSN 1040-2608

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Identification Number: 10.1016/j.alcr.2015.11.005

Abstract

Turkey has a remarkably high proportion of female full professors in its universities and in scientific fields (STEM) that are traditionally dominated by men in other countries. This could reflect a great deal of occupational gender equality but there has been a debate whether this equality came at the expense of family life. With the expansion of academia in the late 1990s and the erosion of childcare availability, whether institutional or familial, more recent cohorts of female academics may be paying a greater family penalty than their predecessors. We investigate these conjectures using the Turkish Academic Career Survey (TAC) – an original retrospective life-history study conducted in 2007 with a representative sample of around 4500 academics. We focus on the relationship between career progression and the family transitions of academics and analyze whether this relationship varies by scientific field and if professors advanced in rank during different stages of higher education's expansion in Turkey. We find a considerable gender gap in family formation outcomes of Turkish academics in all fields. Furthermore, we find that female academics that completed their PhDs after 1999 were considerably at a higher risk of postponing parenthood compared to those who obtained their PhD's before the higher education expansion occurred.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/advances-in-life-...
Additional Information: © 2015 Elsevier B.V.
Divisions: Social Policy
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Date Deposited: 02 Feb 2016 11:14
Last Modified: 26 Feb 2024 07:12
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/65199

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