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Fig. 2. Distribution of weekly working time by gender (1=100% WWT, i.e. full time) During early academic and clinical career men and women are on equal terms when it comes to fixed-term contracts. But we found out, that men receive contracts with longer working hours more often (men: 84 %; women: 78 %). This fact leads to a gender pay gap and prospectively to a gender pension gap in the future. Differences in the permanent working contracts The analysis is based on contracts from 124 employees, of whom 47 were women and 77 were men. We found a main effect of the factor gender (F(2/119)=8.132; p<.001, ɳ2=.012), but no main effect of the parameter contract type (F(2/119)=1.697; p=.188). There was a main effect of gender on the variable weekly working time as well as on the variable age. In general men had longer weekly working times (M=.973, SD=.021) than women (M=.888, SD=.026) and they were older at the beginning of their employment (men: M=42.565, SD=.651; women: M=39.708, SD=.789). Factors/parameters Gender Contract type Interaction Fixed-term CoD p=.202 P<.001 wwt P<.001 P=.009 total P<.001 P<.001 P=.042 Permanent age P=.006 wwt P=.013 total P<.001 P=.188 P=.006 Table 3. Results from MANOVA, p: α-error margin Men were also twice as likely to perceive a permanent contract as women. This implicates the better opportnities for men to plan their career and family formation, rather than women. 31