{"product_id":"academic-motherhood-kelly-ward-9780813553856","title":"Academic Motherhood: How Faculty Manage Work and Family","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcademic Motherhood\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of over one hundred women who are both professors and mothers and examines how they navigated their professional lives at different career stages. Kelly Ward and Lisa Wolf-Wendel base their findings on a longitudinal study that asks how women faculty on the tenure track manage work and family in their early careers (pre-tenure) when their children are young (under the age of five), and then again in mid-career (post-tenure) when their children are older. The women studied work in a range of institutional settings--research universities, comprehensive universities, liberal arts colleges, and community colleges--and in a variety of disciplines, including the sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMuch of the existing literature on balancing work and family presents a pessimistic view and offers cautionary tales of what to avoid and how to avoid it. In contrast, the goal of \u003ci\u003eAcademic Motherhood \u003c\/i\u003eis to help tenure track faculty and the institutions at which they are employed \"make it work.\" Writing for administrators, prospective and current faculty as well as scholars, Ward and Wolf-Wendel bring an element of hope and optimism to the topic of work and family in academe. They provide insight and policy recommendations that support faculty with children and offer mechanisms for problem-solving at personal, departmental, institutional, and national levels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kelly Ward, Lisa Wolf-Wendel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813553857\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813553856\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/28\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Kelly Ward","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988288176383,"sku":"9780813553856","price":38.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_732dfd1a-dd00-4a78-80b8-8df33754c3f8.jpg?v=1683293686","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/academic-motherhood-kelly-ward-9780813553856","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}