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The Effects of Parenthood During Graduate School on PhD Recipients’ Paths to the Professoriate: A Focus on Motherhood
Author(s) -
Kulp Amanda M.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
new directions for higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1536-0741
pISSN - 0271-0560
DOI - 10.1002/he.20211
Subject(s) - higher education , graduate students , educational attainment , focus (optics) , graduate education , sociology , pedagogy , psychology , medical education , economic growth , economics , medicine , physics , optics
This chapter focuses on graduate students who are parents, the career‐related resources they gather during graduate school, and the influence of those resources on PhD‐earning mothers’ attainment of tenure‐track faculty jobs at U.S. higher‐education institutions.