In Pursuit of a Tenure-Track Faculty Position: Career Progression and Satisfaction of Humanities and Social Sciences Doctorates | Zendy

Joyce Main | Zendy; Sarah Prenovitz | Zendy; Ronald G. Ehrenberg | Zendy

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In Pursuit of a Tenure-Track Faculty Position: Career Progression and Satisfaction of Humanities and Social Sciences Doctorates

Author(s) -

Joyce Main,

Sarah Prenovitz,

Ronald G. Ehrenberg

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

review of higher education/the review of higher education

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.399

H-Index - 64

eISSN - 1090-7009

pISSN - 0162-5748

DOI - 10.1353/rhe.2019.0067

Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , job satisfaction , marital status , humanism , position (finance) , sociology , higher education , psychology , political science , social psychology , business , demography , art , finance , law , population , visual arts

Using the life course perspective to examine the longer-term career patterns of more than 5,000 humanities and humanistic social sciences PhDs, this study illustrates the multiple pathways to the professoriate and the importance of academic aspirations and linked lives in career trajectories. Marital status and having young dependents in the household influence the career patterns of men and women differently; however, there is permeability between other employment sectors and tenure-track faculty positions. While the majority of PhDs intended academic careers, PhDs in the non-profit (non-academic) sector report a higher rate of job satisfaction compared to PhDs in tenure-track faculty positions.

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