Navigating Academic Motherhood

The Possibilities of Effective Mentorship for Tenured Faculty Mothers
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-65166-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Routledge Research in Higher Education

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.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bradley, Elizabeth

Agosto, Vonzell

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth Bradley is a Professor in the School for Graduate Studies at SUNY Empire State University, USA.

Vonzell Agosto is a Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies and Affiliate Faculty in Women and Gender Studies at the University of South Florida, USA.