The Impact of Gendered Mentorship in the Leak between Dissertation Programs and Tenure-Track Jobs

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Beyond Leaky Pipelines: Exploring Gender Inequalities in Archaeological Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The leaky pipeline for women in archaeology has been documented in a number of contexts. This paper begins by measuring the size of the leak in the pipeline from PhD programs to tenure-track positions in US anthropology departments. As an attempt to move toward explaining why gender inequalities persist, we then explore the degree to which the apparent gender of dissertation thesis advisors and committee members correlates with job placement. We determine whether women who landed jobs in academia have more women in these mentorship positions than those who completed dissertations but did not acquire academic jobs.

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• Beyond Leaky Pipelines: Exploring Gender Inequalities in Archaeological Practice   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 35829.0