Inside Higher Ed today summarizes findings in a new book based on UC and other data arguing that female academics with children face both career and marital bumps in the road.
...Written by long-term collaborators Mary Anne Mason, professor of law at
the University of California at Berkeley; Nicholas Wolfinger, associate
professor of sociology at the University of Utah; and Marc Goulden,
director of data initiatives at Berkeley, the work also looks at the
effects of successful careers in academe on professors’ personal lives...
Concerns about time demands in relation to caretaking, and worries that
advisers, future employers and peers would take their work less
seriously were all reasons female Ph.D. students, more than male, cited
for not having a child or being uncertain about having a child in one
survey of graduate students in the University of California system. In
another survey of postdoctoral fellows in the system, more than 40
percent of women who had children during their fellowships were
considering changing their career plans to those outside academic
research, compared to 20 percent of childless women with no plans for
children...
More info on the book - Do Babies Matter? - can be found at http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/06/06/new-book-gender-family-and-academe-shows-how-kids-affect-careers-higher-education
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