Managing the career effects of discrimination and motherhood: The role of collegial support for a caregiving policy at a research-intensive U.S. university

Moors, Amy C.; Stewart, Abigail J.; Malley, Janet E.

doi:10.1080/1360080x.2022.2076188

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The new scarlet letter: Global challenges of motherhood in public administration programs and how we could solve them

Young,

Grayer,

Wiley

2024

Public Admin & Development

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Motherhood in academia remains vastly underrepresented in both developed and developing countries. Key career opportunities for women often coincide with childbearing and child‐rearing years, limiting their consideration for these positions. This underrepresentation diminishes academic mothers' ability to contribute meaningfully to public administration (PA) and development issues that deeply impact them. Using comparative administrative law, we develop a typology of environments academic mothers navigate, reflecting national and cultural differences. We investigate the historical, cultural, and structural factors perpetuating this inequity, highlighting biases and discrimination faced by academic mothers. Entrenched institutional structures and complacent cultural norms exacerbate their systemic oppression. Normalizing motherhood in academia, from graduate students to university presidents, requires new laws, policies, programs, and expectations that create strong legal protections and favorable institutional policies. We conclude with universal recommendations to transform academia into a more inclusive space for mothers, focusing on PA to address this pervasive issue.

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The new scarlet letter: Global challenges of motherhood in public administration programs and how we could solve them

Young,

Grayer,

Wiley

2024

Public Admin & Development

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Gendered Impact of Caregiving Responsibilities on Tenure Track Faculty Parents’ Professional Lives

2022

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Navigating a career while raising a family can be challenging, especially for women in academia. In this study, we examine the ways in which professional life interruptions due to child caregiving (e.g., opportunities not offered, professional travel curtailed) affect pre- and post-tenure faculty members’ career satisfaction and retention. We also examine whether sharing caregiving responsibilities with a partner affected faculty members’ (particularly women’s) career outcomes. In a sample of 753 tenure track faculty parents employed at a large research-intensive university, results showed that as the number of professional life interruptions due to caregiving increased, faculty members experienced less career satisfaction and greater desire to leave their job. Pre-tenure women’s, but not pre-tenure men’s, career satisfaction and intention to stay were negatively affected when they experienced at least one professional life interference. Pre-tenure men’s desire to stay in their job and career satisfaction remained high, regardless of the number of professional life interferences they experienced. Sharing parenting responsibilities with a partner did not buffer the demands of caregiving on pre-tenure women’s career outcomes. Our work highlights the need to consider the varied ways in which caregiving affects faculty members’ careers, beyond markers such as publications, and how institutions can support early career stage women with family-friendly practices.

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A European perspective on structural barriers to women’s career progression in neuroscience

Bourke,

Spanò,

Schuman

2023

Nat Neurosci

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Managing the career effects of discrimination and motherhood: The role of collegial support for a caregiving policy at a research-intensive U.S. university

Cited by 4 publications

References 55 publications

The new scarlet letter: Global challenges of motherhood in public administration programs and how we could solve them

The new scarlet letter: Global challenges of motherhood in public administration programs and how we could solve them

Gendered Impact of Caregiving Responsibilities on Tenure Track Faculty Parents’ Professional Lives

A European perspective on structural barriers to women’s career progression in neuroscience

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