%0 Journal Article
%T Global linkages, the higher education pipeline, and national contexts: The worldwide growth of women faculty, 1970¨C2012
%A Christine Min Wotipka
%A Joseph Svec
%A Mana Nakagawa
%J International Journal of Comparative Sociology
%@ 1745-2554
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0020715218780475
%X Despite the surge in womenĄŻs enrollments in higher education over the last several decades, women continue to be unequally represented in faculty careers around the world. In this article, we use data from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to examine and explain regional and global trends in percentages of women faculty within 92 countries from 1970 to 2012. Drawing on world society and development perspectives, we posit that womenĄŻs representation among faculty is influenced by a combination of global norms of justice and womenĄŻs rights as well as national contexts. Results of descriptive analyses show remarkable growth over time for all world regions, although gender parity has yet to be reached. Using country fixed effects panel regression strategies, we find that countries with higher levels of women who earn higher education degrees, stronger linkages to global norms of womenĄŻs rights, and higher levels of economic development are more likely to have higher percentages of women faculty, with the caveat that the effect of economic development is conditioned by national levels of womenĄŻs caregiving burdens. Although the pipeline argument serves as a popular narrative, womenĄŻs access to higher education is only part of the story; our analyses indicate that percentages of women faculty are shaped by the intersection of norms, national contexts, and human capital
%K Cross-national
%K global linkages
%K higher education
%K women faculty
%K world society
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0020715218780475