Presidential Address: The Faculty Time Divide |
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Authors: | Jacobs Jerry A. |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, 3718 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104-6209 |
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Abstract: | The time demands of academic life are examined, drawing on data from a large national sample of faculty. I outline the divide between full-time faculty, who work long hours irrespective of rank or institution type, and part-time faculty, who work at low pay with little job security, status, recognition, or fringe benefits. The expectations of academic life in dual-career couples are hard to reconcile with the demands of parenting. This is a common problem because assistant professors are generally too old to wait until they have tenure to have children. The segmentation of academic life into an overworked core and a marginalized periphery tends to perpetuate gender inequality. |
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Keywords: | working time work– family conflict gender inequality faculty workload glass ceiling |
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