Perspektiven wirtschafts- und berufspädagogischer sowie wirtschaftsethischer Forschung

Women are underrepresented in science, although formal barriers that strongly influenced women's academic careers in the 20th century no longer exist today. The declining proportion of women in the course of an academic career is also described as a “leaky pipeline”: On the way to a professorship, more and more women turn to a perspective other than academia, although initially many women begin their careers in the corresponding degree. This problem can be found (also across disciplines) at all German universities, and for multiple reasons such as (psychological) barriers resulting from (rather male) stereotypes in science, a lack of female role models, etc.
Until now, there has been a lack of focus on the various professional biographical stages of academic careers. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to elaborate and summarize reasons and obstacles on academic careers that can be derived from various theories and empirical findings and furthermore to develop a model that traces individual and organizational influencing factors and possible changes in the course of an academic career.