Academic Mothers Building Online Communities: It Takes a Village (1st ed. 2023)

By: Sarah Trocchio and Lisa K. Hanasono and Jessica Jorgenson Borchert and Rachael Dwyer and Jeanette Yih Harvie

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Synopsis: This volume focuses on the diverse ways in which mothers working within academia seek to find others with similar experiences to build virtual communities. Although the faculty and student populations of universities have diversified, mothers in academia are disproportionately overrepresented in precarious faculty and staff positions and continue to experience myriad institutional and interpersonal barriers, such as gender wage gaps that are exacerbated by stop-the-clock tenure policies, inadequate parental leave policies, expensive or scarce local childcare options, and social biases. The book gives space to the many ways women create and challenge their own versions of motherhood through a digital “village,” examining how academic mothers use virtual communities to seek and enact different kinds of support.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783031266652
Related ISBNs:: 9783031266645
Publisher:: Springer International Publishing
Date of Addition:: 07/09/23
Copyrighted By:: The Editor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Education, Social Studies, Philosophy, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Sarah Trocchio
Edited by:: Lisa K. Hanasono
Edited by:: Jessica Jorgenson Borchert
Edited by:: Rachael Dwyer
Edited by:: Jeanette Yih Harvie