Faculty

According to a recent study, women are more likely than men to resign from their faculty positions, The Chronicle reports. Women with tenure and women in fields outside of STEM leave their positions at the highest rates. Women in their early careers are more likely to quit because of problems with work-life balance, while women in later stages of their careers are more likely to leave because of a hostile work environment. Men typically give reasons related to their jobs, like a lack of resources or assistance. The study looked at a census of employment records gathered by the Academic Analytics Research Center between 2011 and 2020, and it was published in Science Advances. It was discovered that across all professional stages, women were more likely than men to leave their faculty positions.