Academic Motherhood : How Faculty Manage Work and Family

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Academic Motherhood tells the story of one hundred women who are both professors and mothers and how they navigated their professional lives at different career stages. It is based on a longitudinal study that asks how women faculty on the tenure track manage work and family in their early careers w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ward, Kelly (Kelly Anne)
Otros Autores: Wolf-Wendel, Lisa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Working mothers.
Work and family.
Women college teachers > Social conditions.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Professeures (Enseignement superieur) > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Femmes dans l'enseignement superieur > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Travail et familles > États-Unis.
Meres au travail > États-Unis.
Women college teachers > United States > Social conditions.
Women in higher education > United States > Social conditions.
Work and family > United States.
Working mothers > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Motherhood and an Academic Career: A Negotiable Goal; Chapter 2. Origins of the Study; Chapter 3. Understanding the Existing Narratives and Counternarratives; Chapter 4. Managing Work and Family in the Early Career; Chapter 5. Mid-Career Perspectives on Work and Family; Chapter 6. The Role of Disciplinary and Departmental Contexts; Chapter 7. Institutional Type Differences; Chapter 8. Social Capital and Dual Careers; Chapter 9. Leaving the Tenure Track; Chapter 10. Policy Perspectives.
  • Chapter 11. Conclusions, Recommendations, and Parting ThoughtsReferences; Index; About the Authors.

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