Academic Motherhood : : How Faculty Manage Work and Family /

Academic Motherhood : : How Faculty Manage Work and Family / / Lisa Wolf-Wendel, Kelly Ward.

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Ward, Kelly,
Wolf-Wendel, Lisa,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (263 p.) :; 24 photos
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Motherhood and an Academic Career: A Negotiable Road
  • 2. Origins of the Study
  • 3. Understanding the Existing Narratives and Counternarratives
  • 4. Managing Work and Family in the Early Career
  • 5. Mid-Career Perspectives on Work and Family
  • 6. The Role of Disciplinary and Departmental Contexts
  • 7. Institutional Type Differences
  • 8. Social Capital and Dual Careers
  • 9. Leaving the Tenure Track
  • 10. Policy Perspectives
  • 11. Conclusions, Recommendations, and Parting Thoughts
  • References
  • Index

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