Impact of a Pandemic on Early Career Women

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in school closures and distancing requirements that have disrupted both work and family life for many. Concerns exist that these disruptions caused by the pandemic may not have influenced men and women researchers equally. Many medical journals have published papers on the pandemic, which were generated by researchers facing the challenges of these disruptions. Here we report the results of an analysis that compared the gender distribution of authors on 1893 medical papers related to the pandemic with that on papers published in the same journals in 2019, for papers with first authors and last authors from the United States. Using mixed-effects regression models, we estimated that the proportion of COVID-19 papers with a woman first author was 19% lower than that for papers published in the same journals in 2019, while our comparisons for last authors and overall proportion of women authors per paper were inconclusive. A closer examination suggested that women’s representation as first authors of COVID-19 research was particularly low for papers published in March and April 2020. Our findings are consistent with the idea that the research productivity of women, especially early-career women, has been affected more than the research productivity of men.

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Early career women in construction: Are their career expectations being met?

Construction Economics and Building ◽

10.5130/ajceb.v20i3.6867 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Bee Lan Oo ◽

Teck-Heng Benson Lim ◽

Siyu Feng

Keyword(s):

Job Satisfaction ◽

Online Survey ◽

Early Career ◽

Career Women ◽

Career Expectations ◽

Factors Influencing ◽

Positive Correlations ◽

Career Expectation ◽

Almost All ◽

Overall Job Satisfaction

The recruitment, retention and development of early career women have always been a challenge in the construction industry. With the focus on early career women or new female construction management degree graduate hires in construction, this study explores: (i) factors influencing their choice of career in construction; (ii) the extent of which their career expectations were met in their first few years of job experience; and (iii) how their met or unmet career expectations are related their overall job satisfaction. Data was collected using an online survey questionnaire. The results show that the top significant factors influencing the respondents’ career choice are career opportunities and belief of getting better pay. Their career expectations, on the other hand, were met or exceeded to a great extent for almost all the measurement items. The results also show that the respondents have a relatively high overall job satisfaction level. Although there is lack of evidence that their overall job satisfaction increased as met career expectations increased, there are statistically significant positive correlations among the career expectation measurement items. These findings have implications for human resource practices of construction employers that aimed to attract early career women into the industry, and to reinforce their met career expectations and job satisfaction.

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Role Strain and Psychological Distress in Late Career Mothers

Australian Journal of Career Development ◽

10.1177/103841629800700208 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 27-33

Author(s):

Angela Gill ◽

Juanita Muller

Keyword(s):

Psychological Distress ◽

Adult Development ◽

General Health Questionnaire ◽

Role Strain ◽

Early Career ◽

Role Overload ◽

Career Stage ◽

Career Women ◽

Australian Bureau Of Statistics ◽

Career Mothers

Balancing a career and family is difficult for mothers of young children. The cumulative demands of multiple roles can result in role strain (i.e. role overload, interference from work to family, and interference from family to work) and psychological distress as measured by the General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ-12). One strategy used by women to overcome such difficulties is to delay having children until their careers are established. Recent Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS; 1997) reflect this trend. Research by Higgins, Duxbury and Lee (1994) has suggested, contrary to previously held views, that late career women who are at peak visibility in their work roles, and who are also having children at this time, are at greater risk of role strain and psychological distress than early career mothers. The aim of this study is to examine work to family interference, family to work interference, role overload and psychological distress in early and late career mothers with pre-school aged children. Early and late career stages are defined using Levinson's (1986) model of adult development. Participants were 75 women with children aged 6 years and younger, sampled from 12 local day care centres, who completed a brief questionnaire examining role strain, psychological distress and career stage. The findings reported in this study found that late career mothers experience greater role strain and psychological distress than early career mothers.

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Dancer, Doctor, Maiden, Mother: Tanaka Kinuyo’s Early Star Image

Tanaka Kinuyo ◽

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474409698.003.0002 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 36-56

Author(s):

Lauri Kitsnik

Keyword(s):

Real Life ◽

Early Career ◽

Career Women ◽

Star Image ◽

Studio System ◽

Joint Authorship

The chapter examines Tanaka’s early career as an actress in the 1930s and her star persona in terms of acting style and roles played within the Japanese studio system. The notion of ‘idiogest’ is introduced to analyse the gestural characteristics of Tanaka’s acting style, which constitute a fundamental element of her star image. Against preconceptions of a homogenised star image, it explores Tanaka versatile acting skills and roles in films, ranging from traditional girls to modern career women and athlete. The chapter argues that the recurrent link between her characters and tragic motherhood and romance is connected to contemporary social shifts in femininity and Tanaka’s real life. Because her star persona had a significant impact on the content, promotion and appraisal of the films as the chapter demonstrates, Kitsnik suggests talking about ‘joint stardom’ or joint authorship between Tanaka and the directors of the films.

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A lifetime in the workplace: Continuity and change in image management of working women in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota

Fashion Style & Popular Culture ◽

10.1386/fspc_00051_1 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Caren S. Oberg ◽

Marilyn DeLong ◽

Barbara Heinemann

Keyword(s):

Identity Management ◽

Social Issues ◽

Working Women ◽

Professional Women ◽

Early Career ◽

Twin Cities ◽

Career Stage ◽

Art Practice ◽

Career Women ◽

Continuity And Change

Professional women engage with individual and social issues of ageing, appearance and identity throughout their lives. The challenges professional women have faced since the 1970s have changed as to how they view themselves in new and varied contemporary careers and their perceptions of how others view them. Eleven career women in the Twin Cities, MN, were interviewed about how they managed their appearances throughout their careers. Responses were organized into groups built around the women’s early career narratives – 20s–30s, mid-career narratives – 40s–60s, late and post-career narratives – 70s–90s. We found that these women consciously thought about the meaning and impact of work and their work wardrobe as they passed through each career stage, especially in terms of impression and identity management. We learned through the stories they told how the art, practice and meaning around dressing for work changed over time – with both continuity and change in their expressed outcomes.

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The Politics of Dissertation Advising: How Early Career Women Faculty Negotiate Access and Participation

Innovative Higher Education ◽

10.1007/s10755-011-9200-1 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 37 (3) ◽

pp. 227-242 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

L. Earle Reybold ◽

S. David Brazer ◽

Lynne Schrum ◽

Kirsten W. Corda

Keyword(s):

Early Career ◽

Women Faculty ◽

Career Women

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