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. 2007 Nov;8(11):977-81.
doi: 10.1038/sj.embor.7401110.

Falling off the academic bandwagon. Women are more likely to quit at the postdoc to principal investigator transition

Elisabeth D Martinez  1 , Jeannine Botos, Kathleen M Dohoney, Theresa M Geiman, Sarah S Kolla, Ana Olivera, Yi Qiu, Geetha Vani Rayasam, Diana A Stavreva, Orna Cohen-Fix
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Falling off the academic bandwagon. Women are more likely to quit at the postdoc to principal investigator transition

Elisabeth D Martinez et al. EMBO Rep. 2007 Nov.
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Figure 1
Figure 1
Fewer women will pursue a principal investigator position. (A) The responses of female and male fellows on the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Intramural Research Program indicating whether they are considering pursuing the principal investigator (PI) career track; P < 0.0001 for gender differences in all cases. (B) The responses of fellows indicating whether they would continue to pursue a PI position if their first application failed; P < 0.0001 across all responses for gender difference, as well as for US (researchers from the USA) and non-US (researchers from outside the USA) responses within each gender.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Family considerations are important to more women than men. (A) The percentage of respondents who rated the indicated factors as very or extremely important in their pursuit (or otherwise) of the principal investigator (PI) career track. (B) The responses of married fellows regarding career concessions they are willing to make for and expect from their partners. (C) The percentage of respondents who rated the indicated factors as very or extremely important to make the PI career track more attractive. All gender differences shown, except for competition in the field in panel (A), are statistically significant with P < 0.05.
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