“…The phenomenon of role conflict for women doctoral students is beginning to be documented in the literature (L. Brown & Watson, 2010;Carter, Blumenstein, & Cook, 2013;Eisenbach, 2013;Haynes, Bulosan, Citty, & Grant-Harris, 2012;Lynch, 2008); however, most of the literature on role conflict and management focuses on the residential, PhD, or first generation EdD programs where students often leave their professions and relocate to become students (Lee, Green, & Brennan, 2000). The concept of the motherhood penalty in higher education is well documented in the literature on faculty as researchers have examined faculty with children teaching in tenure-track positions and found disparity between men and women (M. Baker, 2012Baker, , 2016Craft & Maseberg-Tomlinson, 2015;Cummins, 2012;Jakubiec, 2015;McCutcheon & Morrison, 2016;Seher, & Iverson, 2015;Stinchfield, & Trepal, 2010;Summers, & Clarke, 2015;Ward, 2014;Wolf-Wendel & Ward, 2015;Sallee, Ward, and Wolf-Wendel, (2016) purported that academic mothers experience greater responsibility related to household tasks and childcare than academic fathers.…”