The balancing act : gendered perspectives in faculty roles and work lives / edited by Susan J. Bracken, Jeanie K. Allen, and Diane R. Dean ; foreword by Ann E. Austin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bracken, Susan J.

Allen, Jeanie K., 1951-

Dean, Diane R., 1967-

Series:

Women in academe series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women college teachers--United States.

Women college teachers.

United States.

Women college teachers--Recruiting--United States.

Universities and colleges--United States--Faculty.

Universities and colleges.

Physical Description:

xiv, 177 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Sterling, Va. : Stylus Pub., 2006.

Contents:

Introduction: the past, present, and future: women's studies, higher education, and praxis / Susan J. Bracken, Jeanie K. Allen, and Diane R. Dean

Babies matter: pushing the gender equity revolution forward / Mary Ann Mason, Marc Goulden, and Nicholas H. Wolfinger

How female and male faculty with families manage work and personal roles / Carol L. Colbeck

Faculty work and family life: policy perspectives from different institutional types / Lisa Wolf-Wendel and Kelly Ward

Policies that part: early career experiences of coworking academic couples / Elizabeth G. Creamer

Agents of learning: strategies for assuming agency, for learning, in tenured faculty careers / Anna Neumann, Aimee LaPointe Terosky, and Julie Schell

Faculty change initiatives: responding to a campus climate study / Jeni Hart

Conclusion / Ann E. Austin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1579221483

1579221491

OCLC:

61687700

Publisher Number:

9781579221485 (hardcover : alk. paper)

9781579221492 (pbk. : alk. paper)