The Relationship between Family Responsibilities and Employment Status among College and University Faculty

By Laura W. Perna. 2001

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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Onto, Up, Off the Academic Faculty Ladder: The Gendered Effects of Family on Career Transitions for a Cohort of Social Science Ph.D.s (2011, background): “…compared to men, women more often indicate a spouse’s career as a major reason for moves or job changes, which, for women, are associated with increased odds of career interruption and decreased odds for advancement (Ginther & Hayes, 2003; McElrath, 1992; Perna, 2001a; Rosenfeld & Jones, 1987).”
Academic Motherhood: Managing Complex Roles in Research Universities (2003, background): “Many of the women in this study contemplated leaving academe or leaving the research university environment to pursue other professional pursuits, a finding substantiated in other research on women faculty (Perna, 2001).”
Academic fathers pursuing tenure: A qualitative study of work-family conflict, coping strategies, and departmental culture. (2012, background): “A study by Perna (2001) demonstrated that institutions had policies for maternity leave, but less than half had policies in place for job assistance, flexible scheduling, and/or paternal leave.”
Stay in the Game: Gender, Family Formation and Alternative Trajectories in the Academic Life Course (2009, background): “Instructors, lecturers and other unranked faculty compose 22 percent of all female full-time faculty, but only 11 percent of male faculty (Curtis 2004; see also Perna 2001).”
Predictors of Delayed College Enrollment and the Impact of Socioeconomic Status (2007, background): “John (2003) developed the balanced access model after seeing an inequality in college access over the last twenty years that he believed was related to more than just academic preparation.”