Academic Motherhood: How Faculty Manage Work and Family

Acknowledgments

We would like to acknowledge the many people who have provided support for us throughout this project. We both had the support of our institutional colleagues, who discussed ideas with us, encouraged us, questioned us, and pushed us to think about work and family in new and different ways. We also want to thank the graduate students (and former graduate students) who helped us over the years. They kept us organized, helped us to collect or transcribe data, and generally served as a sounding board for the many ideas we came up with as a result of our data collection and analysis. We would not have been able to complete this project without their help. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the American Association of University Women both provided funding for the data collection aspects of this project—and without their support we never would have been able to write this book. Kelly also expresses her appreciation for the Ben and Nancy Ellison Faculty Fellowship at Washington State University and the support it provided her for carrying out this project. We also owe a huge debt of gratitude to our spouses and our children (Daisy, Lucy, Henry, Addie, and Lily), who put up with our periodic satis- ficing and lack of balance that we needed to get this project completed. They also provided us with ample perspective and insight. A special thanks to Gene Solomon for his useful and necessary editing of the book. We also want to thank the academic mothers who we interviewed in this project. We appreciate them for their honesty, for their time, for their dedication , and for their role modeling of how academic women can manage both work and family. The ultimate acknowledgment of this book goes to these women. We hope their stories inspire others to follow in their footsteps. Finally, we want to dedicate this book to our friend J. Douglas Toma, who despite being a guy, epitomized how to achieve academic success and personal happiness and how to integrate the two. We miss you, Doug! A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S vii Academic Motherhood O ...