Gendered Career Decisions in the Academy: Job Refusal and Job Departure Intentions among Academic Dual-Career Couples

We investigated the extent to which dual-career academics' jobrelated decisions considered the career of their partner with close attention to the relevance of gender in the process. Analyses using survey data from faculty in seven U.S. universities found that among those recruited to the university first (primary recruits), women who perceived their career as primary compared to that of their partner were more likely than men to have considered refusing their job offer if their partner had not found appropriate employment. Furthermore, regardless of the importance of their career relative to that of their partner's, women were more likely than men to have contemplated leaving their current job had their partner not found suitable employment. Our findings highlighted the potential for effective dual-career hiring policies to promote gender diversification of the academy.