Why the Academic Pipeline Leaks: Fewer Men than Women Perceive Barriers to Becoming Professors

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Women academics and research productivity: an international comparison (2015, background): “Second, the widely held assumption that family responsibilities compromise a woman’s academic career affects both the recruitment and the retention of women within the profession (Sax et al. 2002, Van Anders 2004; De Welde and Laursen 2011).”
Understanding the experiences of female doctoral students (2010, background): “Similarly, van Anders ( 2004 ) found that ‘parenting and mobility issues – but not research or teaching issues – were more negatively associated’ with entering academia for women research graduates than for men.”