Do Babies Matter? : : Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower / / Mary Ann Mason, Marc Goulden, Nicholas H. Wolfinger.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Mason, Mary Ann,; Goulden, Marc,; Wolfinger, Nicholas H.,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Families in Focus
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (188 p.) :; 13 graphs, 3 tables

The new generation of scholars differs in many ways from its predecessor of just a few decades ago. Academia once consisted largely of men in traditional single-earner families. Today, men and women fill the doctoral student ranks in nearly equal numbers and most will experience both the benefits an...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Figures and Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. The Graduate School Years: New Demographics, Old Thinking
• 2. Getting into the Game
• 3. Capturing the Golden Ring of Tenure
• 4. Alone in the Ivory Tower
• 5. Life after Tenure
• 6. Toward a Better Model
• Appendix: Data and Analysis
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index