Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this paper examines the role of gender in the promotion …. Specifically, how do the factors related to promotion differ for men and women? How do gender differences in promotion translate … answering these questions, alternative definitions of "promotion" will be considered. Getting ahead matters - particularly for …

may lead to higher promotion standards for women. If employers expect women to do more household work than men, thereby … exerting less effort in their paid job, then women must be more talented to make promotion profitable. Moreover, specialization …

explained by the differing average characteristics of male and female academics and barriers to female promotion. Preliminary … to female promotion is revealed. …