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Direct linkERIC Number: EJ1122150
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
Pages: 13
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Academic Motherhood: Mid-Career Perspectives and the Ideal Worker Norm
Ward, Kelly; Wolf-Wendel, Lisa
New Directions for Higher Education, n176 p11-23 Win 2016
This chapter explores how mid-career tenured women faculty, who are mothers and academics, manage multiple roles. The women represent faculty at a variety of institutional types and in a variety of disciplines. The chapter looks at these experiences in light of ideal worker norms.
Descriptors: Women Faculty, Tenure, College Faculty, Family Work Relationship, Coping, Role, Mothers, Experience, Teacher Characteristics
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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