Gender differences in academic careers: Evidence for a Dutch university from personnel data 1990-2006

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 646-662

  Groeneveld, Sandra ^a   Tijdens, Kea ^a,b   Van Kleef, Daphne ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Academic staff; Careers; Gender; Internal promotions; Personnel data; Sex segregationEvent history analysis; The Netherlands; Universities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866372371     PISSN: 20407149     EISSN: 17587093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02610151211263487     Document Type: Article

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