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Marriage and Baby Blues: Redefining Gender Equity in the Academy

Graduate Division; Graduate School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley.

Marc Goulden

Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley

Traditionally, gender equity in the academy is evaluated in terms of women’s professional success as compared to men’s. This study examines gender equity not only in terms of professional outcomes but also in terms of familial outcomes, such as childbirth, marriage, and divorce. Using data from the Survey of Doctorate Recipients as well as data from a 2002 to 2003 survey of the work and family issues facing ladder-rank faculty in the nine campuses of the University of California system, the authors followed more than thirty thousand Ph.D.s in all disciplines across their life course and surveyed more than eighty-five hundred active University of California faculty. Results indicate that gender equity in terms of familial gains is as elusive as gender equity in terms of professional employment, raising the fundamental issue of what gender equity means in a university setting or in any fast-track employment setting.

Key Words: gender equity • academia • family • faculty

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 596, No. 1, 86-103 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0002716204268744


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