{"id":165059,"date":"2024-03-11T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=165059"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:27:12","slug":"female-academics-experience-less-support-than-their-male-counterparts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2024\/03\/11\/female-academics-experience-less-support-than-their-male-counterparts\/","title":{"rendered":"Female academics experience less support than their male counterparts"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do the careers of female academics differ from those of their male counterparts? What is important if you want to advance to the top positions in academia? Researcher Daphne van Helden, who examines the gender gap in academic careers, talks about her findings.<\/p>\n

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Daphne van Helden is conducting doctoral research on the career paths of men and women on their way to becoming professors at EUR and Erasmus MC.\u00a0Her main focus is the gender gap in academic leadership positions. In particular, she wants to know which challenges female mid-career academics face when navigating their careers.<\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n

You are studying the career path from associate professor to full professor. How do you go about this?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAs an example, I observed 75 academics over a three-year period, both men and women, from different disciplines. That makes it possible not only to compare men and women, but also to see how they develop their careers over time.\u201d<\/p>\n

What have you discovered?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the main conclusions of my research is that the so-called \u2018career shock\u2019 is very crucial in careers. These are events that happen to you unexpectedly, such as a chronic illness or a sudden change of manager. A new manager can boost career development when he or she has a different perspective on talent, but it can also be detrimental when career decisions are postponed. Such changes may prompt academics to rethink how to pursue their careers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe found that while men and women experience about the same number of career shocks, there is a gap between the support they receive in coping with them. Women generally experience less support than their male counterparts. Women also experience more and more frequent negative career impacts than men.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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