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Years working Wits Years Formal Ed People reporting
Preference Quant=1 Dependent Children Total units of research
Tot Journal articles published
225 225 225 225 224 225 225
0 0 0 0 1 0 0
6.387
19.309 2.70 .456 1.09
21.97 12.00
4.000
20.000 .00
.500 1.00
10.00 4.50
6.7372 4.3904 6.445 .7213 1.279
35.672 21.79
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Hypothesis a: There is a significant difference in research productivity by gender.
T-tests results indicate that male academics have significantly higher gross research productivity, publish more internationally accredited journal articles and conference proceedings, and make more conference presentations. However, no significant difference was found for DOE journal article publication or for book or book chapter publication. The null hypothesis was rejected and the alternative hypothesis was accepted. These associations were analysed further using partial correlation analysis. The zero order Pearson point biserial correlations (Field, 2009) were found to support the initial t-test findings. When dependent children and, in turn, marriage, were controlled for, these significant associations were not found to change. These results suggest that the influence of marriage or dependent children might not necessarily account for the gender differences found in this context. These results were confirmed by the multiple linear regression analysis, which included covariate factors. Multiple linear regression analysis was run with each of the forms of research productivity as the dependent variable.
TABLE 2: FEMALE ACADEMICS: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS N
Job Satisfaction
Satisfaction with Research versus Teaching Satisfaction with Teaching
Satisfaction with Administration Satisfaction with Research Self-Efficacy Research
Self-Efficacy Statistical Analysis Self-Efficacy Qualitative Analysis Self-Efficacy Teaching Postgraduate Age
Full-time work experience Years as a researcher Years working Wits