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.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Women in academe series.
Other Authors: Bracken, Susan J.
Allen, Jeanie K., 1951-
Dean, Diane R., 1967-
Language:English
Published: Sterling, Va. : Stylus Pub., 2006.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Women in academe series.
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Local Note:
MSU Stanley C. and Selma D. Hollander Faculty Book Collection.
Physical Description:xiv, 177 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
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.