Academic Motherhood

How Faculty Manage Work and Family

Author: Kelly Ward
Secondary Author: Lisa Wolf-Wendel
ISBN: 9780813553856

Academic Motherhood tells the story of over one hundred women who are both professors and mothers and examines how they navigated their professional lives at different career stages. Kelly Ward and Lisa Wolf-Wendel base their findings on a longitudinal study that asks how women faculty on the tenure track manage work and family in their early careers (pre-tenure) when their children are young (under the age of five), and then again in mid-career (post-tenure) when their children are older. The women studied work in a range of institutional settings—research universities, comprehensive universities, liberal arts colleges, and community colleges—and in a variety of disciplines, including the sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences.Much of the existing literature on balancing work and family presents a pessimistic view and offers cautionary tales of what to avoid and how to avoid it. In contrast, the goal of Academic Motherhood is to help tenure track faculty and the institu

Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publish Date: 2012-08-31

Subjects: Education / Essays, Social Science / Women's Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Women in Academia)