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 womens studies. It will also be a vital resource for those with interests in gender equity in education more broadly.
