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Beyond work-family balance in academia: a reconstructive feminist perspective
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Beyond work-family balance in academia: a reconstructive feminist perspective
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Kalwinska
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Edyta Joanna
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1973-
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Edyta Kalwinska
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Stuart Z.
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Rutgers University
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Camden Graduate School
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2014-10
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2014
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The focus of this study is on the underlying cultural gender norms that present professional women in general and women faculty in higher education in particular with an impossible 'choice' between a successful career and motherhood. On the one hand, societal norms still assign women with responsibility for an intensive form of mothering requiring lots of time and energy that leaves little time for their careers. On the other hand, the norm of the ideal worker, which dominates the culture of many colleges and universities, dictates undivided attention to one's research and precludes taking breaks for childrearing, even if it is guaranteed by the family-friendly policies enacted on campus. The ideal worker norm prevents faculty mothers from utilizing family-friendly policies that could ease the tensions of living up to the norm of motherhood. The mere presence of family-friendly policies, no matter how generous they are, is not enough if using them goes against cultural and institutional norms. Hence, creating a work environment that is conducive to utilizing the most optimal policies for faculty parents is essential for academia to be finally fully equitable for men and women. This will require changes in the assumptions, expectations, and behaviors that constitute the norm of the masculine ideal worker who takes no time for family obligations. An alternative model of academic career, predicated on integration of work and family life, is proposed alongside the norm of shared parenting according to which both parents reduce time at work in order to fulfill childrearing and household responsibilities. In this way, masculinity is no longer linked with paid employment and femininity with childrearing.
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1 online resource (iii, 68 p. : ill.)
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M.A.L.S.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Edyta Joanna Kalwinska
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Liberal Studies
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Work and family--United States
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Family policy--United States
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Sex role--United States
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Edyta Joanna
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2014-09-08 13:55:50
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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