Doctoral student experiences in gender-balanced and male-dominated graduate programs

By Beril Ülkü-Steiner, Beth Kurtz-Costes, C. R. Kinlaw. 2000

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Balancing between inspiration and exhaustion: PhD students' experienced socio-psychological well-being (2011, background): “…Postgraduate Student Mirror 2006; Kurtz-Costes, Helmke, and Ülkü-Steiner 2006; Stubb, Pyhältö, and Lonka 2007; Toews et al. 1993, 1997; Ülkü-Steiner, Kurtz-Costes, and Kinlaw 2000), we were able to establish a relationship between the experienced distress and experience of the…”
Understanding academic confidence (2006, background): “Gender differences in general academic self-esteem are unclear (Skaalvik, 1990), although there is evidence that females have more negative academic self-concepts than males (Michie et al., 2001), especially if they are in male-dominated programmes (Uelkue-Steiner et al., 2000).”
Gender and doctoral studies: the perceptions of Ph.D. students in an American university (2006, background): “In a recent large-scale study of doctoral students, we found no differences in reports of mentor support based on the gender of the student’s mentor, but lower career commitment among women in programmes where the majority of faculty was male (Ülkü-Steiner et al., 2000).”