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"Professor Mommy" is designed as a guide for women who want to combine the life of the mind with the joys of motherhood. The book provides practical suggestions from the authors' experiences together with those of other women who have successfully combined parenting with professorships. "Professor Mommy" addresses key questions -- when to have children and how many, what kinds of academic institutions are the most family friendly, how to negotiate around the myths that many people hold about academic life, etc. -- for women throughout all stages of their academic careers, from graduate school through full professor. The authors follow the demands of motherhood all the way from the infant stages through the empty nest. At each stage, the authors offer invaluable advice and tested strategies from women who have successfully juggled the demands and rewards of an academic career and motherhood. Written in clear, jargon-free prose, the book is accessible to women in all disciplines, with concise chapters for the time-constrained academic. The book's conversational tone is supplemented with a review of the most current scholarship on work/family balance and a survey of emerging family-f

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Author

Rachel Connelly; Kristen Rogheh Ghodsee

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781442208582

Category

education

Subjects

Family & Relationships, Sociology, Science

Rating

3.78 / 5 (85 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14