Academic Motherhood: How Faculty Manage Work and Family

by Kelly Ward and Kelly Ward

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813553857
• ISBN13: 9780813553856
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary