Full Description
This volume offers a range of scholarly narratives from tenured faculty mothers across North America, sharing insights into their unique struggles, compromises, and successes from their journeys to tenure.
Featuring personal essays and research-based commentaries about effective mentoring for mothers in academia, this book unpacks the varied and complex challenges involved in achieving a work/family balance. With contributors from a multitude of types of institutions and disciplines, including psychology, education, music, chemistry, philosophy, and more, this collection of essays presents a diverse and engaging array of perspectives on topics ranging from navigating pregnancy to staying productive while managing competing home and work responsibilities.
This important volume is intended for graduate students, professors, higher education administrators, and scholars across education, gender and sexuality in education, and women's studies. It will also be a vital resource for those with interests in gender equity in education more broadly.
Contents
1. Introduction 2. Not as I Thought: Reflections on Forging a Career While Pushing a Stroller 3. I Don't Know How She Did It!! Reflections on Life as a Baby Boomer Mother and Academic 4. On Being a Unicorn: Motherhood and Academic Leadership 5. The Juggle is real: the hidden workload for mothers in the academy 6. Benefits and Burdens: A Philosopher's Perspective on Motherhood in Academia 7. "Aren't you a little young to be Department Chair?" 8. Finding the "Right" Path to Navigating Academia and Motherhood 9. I'm Not Tired 10. Persisting in Supportive Contexts 11. Reproducing and Refusing Ideal Narratives 12. Leaning in or opting out: Learning to prioritize when we can't have it all 13. Being the tenure-track "filling" in the sandwich-generation struggle 14. Breaking Barriers and Water in Chemistry 15. Close to Home: Mama Mentor 16. No More Effs Left to Give 17. The lizard in the back of the room: what my son taught me about teaching college students 18. Mentor or Sponsor: The key to the balancing act of having a family and career 19. It Takes a Village to Raise an Associate Professor
