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Gender Composition and Turnover in the Academic Workplace

Huter, Aimee L.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1321547192

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2011, MA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Sociology and Criminology.
This study examines the relationship between gender composition and turnover in fifty academic departments from 1980 through 1989 in order to substantiate support for either of two competing theories of intergroup relations; social contact theory or competition theory. Regression analysis results of turnover models, constructed to represent five categories of female faculty ranks and five categories of male faculty ranks, offer support for social contact theory. These findings suggest that as proportions of female faculty become greater, turnover incidents among this group decline. Further analysis reveals; however, that turnover among some female and male faculty ranks may not be exclusively influenced by gender differences but by academic rank as well. The female assistant professors in this study experienced higher turnover incidents as proportions of tenured female faculty became greater while the turnover incidents of tenured female faculty declined as their proportions increased. The tenured ranks of male faculty; however, experienced higher turnover incidents as the proportion of female associate professors became greater but decreased as female full professors gained ground in faculty proportions. This study serves as a retest of previous work that examined gender composition and turnover in the academic workplace and also serves as the groundwork for an extension of work in this area.
Stephen Webster, PhD (Advisor)
David Purcell, PhD (Committee Member)
Tiffany Taylor, PhD (Committee Member)
52 p.
Gender; Sociology
Gender Composition; Academic Departments; Turnover; Intergroup Relations

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  • Huter, A. L. (2011). Gender Composition and Turnover in the Academic Workplace [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1321547192

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Huter, Aimee. Gender Composition and Turnover in the Academic Workplace. 2011. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1321547192.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Huter, Aimee. "Gender Composition and Turnover in the Academic Workplace." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1321547192

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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