Academic Motherhood: How Faculty Manage Work and Family

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I N D E X academic drift, 118, 119 academic profession, background information on, 3–7 accumulative disadvantage. See cumulative advantage and disadvantage administrative careers, 80–84, 116, 117–118, 218–219 Aisenberg, Nadya, 9–10 agency, personal: and choice, 151–152, 162, 163–164, 165–166, 172, 177; and opting out, 165–166, 172, 178; and service work, 124–125; and work and family policies, 186, 189–191, 193–194, 207–210, 213, 215 Allan, Elizabeth, 36–37, 207 American Association of Colleges and Universities (AACU), 160–161 American Association of University Professors (AAUP), 4, 187 American Association of University Women (AAUW), 21 American Council on Education Fellows Program, 218–219 assistant professor rank, 3–4, 8, 14–15, 26, 33, 34, 62, 180, 229 associate professor rank, 5, 8, 26, 33, 34–35, 41, 75–78, 103, 125, 227 Baldwin, Roger, 34–35, 130 Bassett, Rachel Hile, 98 Belkin, Lisa, 165 bias avoidance, 41–42, 191–193 biological clock, 7, 40–41, 56, 57–58 Birnbaum, Robert, 111 Blackburn, Robert, 34–35 breastfeeding and work and family policies , 206–207 buffering, 43–44 burnout, 35, 66, 78–79, 86–87 Campbell, Corbin, 190, 210 capital, cultural and socioeconomic: and choice, 151–153, 162–163, 210; and cosmopolitan orientation, 152; inherited, 149–150, 163 career mobility, 64, 67, 68–69, 70–71, 121, 126, 152, 159, 161–162, 175 career mystique, 30, 31, 104–105, 145, 231–232, 244, 245 “career recycling,” 79 career stages, academic, 34–35. See also assistant professor rank; associate professor rank; early-career stage; full professor, advancement to; mid-career stage childbirth. See pregnancy and childbirth child care: dual-career couples and, 155–157, 158, 159; local orientation and, 152–153; second shift and, 41, 70, 157; traditional norms and, 146, 159; work and family policies and, 142, 182, 187, 202, 206, 210–211 choice: family and work strategies and, 234, 235, 238; feminist perspective on, 176–178, 207–208; gendered and workplace norms and, 2, 11, 147–148, 190–191, 209, 211, 244; opting out and, 173, 176–178; personal agency and, 151–152, 162, 163, 165–166, 172, 177, 210; and work and family policies, 77, 123, 186, 189–191, 192, 193–194, 196, 207–210, 244–245. See also “free choice” Clark, Burton, 110–111, 113, 118, 119, 129–130, 138, 152 Clark, Shirley, 44–45 College and University Work-Family Association, 224 commonality of experience, 49, 88, 111, 196 259 260 index community colleges: early-career faculty at, 134–138, 144–145; flexibility of, 140–141, 204; and ideal worker norms, 146–147; local orientation and, 152–153; mid-career faculty at, 138–143, 144; mission of, 144–145; satisfaction at, 136–137, 138, 140–141, 144–145, 147; teaching emphasis at, 137–138, 140, 144–145; and tenure, 204–205; vignettes, 134–136, 138–139; work and family policies at, 142–143, 144, 203–207 comprehensive institutions: and academic drift, 118, 119; and career advancement, 125–126; early-career faculty at, 143–144; and expectations, 126–127; and ideal worker norms, 146–147; in institutional hierarchy, 118–119; mid-career faculty at, 123–127, 144; mission of, 118, 119, 121, 122–123, 127, 144; as “regional comprehensives,” 119, 122–123, 124; as “striving comprehensives ,” 118–121, 123, 124, 143–144, 146; service and agency at, 124–125; tenure at, 121, 123, 124, 143–144, 198–199; vignettes, 119–121, 122–123, 123–124; work and family policies at, 198–201 Corcoran, Mary, 44–45 Coser, Lewis, 41 cosmopolitan vs. local orientation, 152–153 Council of Contemporary Families, 224 counternarratives vs. existing narratives, 1–2, 10, 28–30, 32–46, 244. See also gendered norms and expectations; poststructural feminism cultural capital. See capital, cultural and socioeconomic cumulative advantage and disadvantage, 40, 44–45, 150 daycare needs, 219–220 demographic inertia, 8–9 dependent-care leave, 69, 96, 182 disability leave, 184–185, 197, 200, 205, 214 disciplinary cultures, 88, 108–109 Drago, Bob, 216 dual-career couples: career mobility in, 159, 161–162; hiring policies for, 160–161; and impact on career and family, 9, 149, 154; mother as breadwinner in, 155–159; and opting out, 171–175; poststructural feminism and, 163–164; research on, 153–155; traditional gender norms in, 158–159, 163–164; vignettes, 155–156, 157–158, 159–160; and work and family policies, 220. See also “trailing spouse” early-career stage: and academic workload , 54–55; “career mystique” and, 145; commonalities among faculty in, 49; at...