The influence of career planning, career strategies and organisational conditions on gender disparities in the career of mathematicians and physicists

Abstract

Despite a long tradition of desegregation, the German labour market is still characterised by horizontal and hierarchical employment segregation for women and men (cf. GWK 2012). Whereas horizontal segregation is understood as under (or over) representation of a certain group in occupations or sectors, hierarchical segregation describes the under (or over) representation of that group at the top of occupation-specific career ladders. Compared to other European countries Germany has a medium score on the IP index of gender occupational segregation (cf. EGGE 2009).