Careers of Young Scientists:

By M. Fox, Paula E. Stephan. 2001

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Onto, Up, Off the Academic Faculty Ladder: The Gendered Effects of Family on Career Transitions for a Cohort of Social Science Ph.D.s (2011, background): “Different rates of transitioning into academia may be a function of different career goals or expectations, and previous research has shown that career preferences may vary by gender (Fox & Stephan, 2001), a factor that may influence the impact of gender on career outcomes (Hakim, 2000).”
Why Are Some STEM Fields More Gender Balanced Than Others? (2017, background): “Labor market forces shape who chooses to enter and remain in STEM fields (Fox & Stephan, 2001).”
A Taste for Science? PhD Scientists’ Academic Orientation and Self-Selection into Research Careers in Industry (2010, unknown): “For example, using survey data and data from the Survey of Doctorate Recipients, Fox and Stephan (2001) ﬁnd that the number of students aspiring to become faculty members is larger than the number of those who will actually ﬁnd employment in that sector, suggesting imbalances in the scientiﬁc labor…”
Flying the nest: how the home department shapes researchers’ career paths (2017, unknown): “An academic career has traditionally been the preferred career path for PhD graduates and postdoctoral researchers, but most will move to other sectors as more researchers aspire to academia than positions are available (Fox and Stephan 2001; Stephan 2012).”