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

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.

Copyright:

2023

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9783031266652

Related ISBNs:

9783031266645

Publisher:

Springer International Publishing

Date of Addition:

07/10/23

Copyrighted By:

The Editor

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Education, Social Studies, Philosophy, Sociology

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Bookshare Staff

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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