Can lifestyle preferences help explain the persistent gender gap in academia? The “mothers work less” hypothesis supported for German but not for U.S. early career researchers

• Monika Sieverding ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: monika.sieverding@psychologie.uni-heidelberg.de

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9865-4525

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• Constanze Eib,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Andreas B. Neubauer,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Psychology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany, German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF), Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Center for Research on Individual Development and Adaptive Education of Children at Risk (IDeA), Frankfurt am Main, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0515-1126

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• Thomas Stahl

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

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