2317 - Combining Work and Family: Advice for Those at the Beginning of a Sociology Career

Session Submission Type: Workshop

Description

Much of the literature on work/family issues in academia suggest that married women or women in permanent partnerships have a harder time gaining and maintaining a traditional tenure-track career because of the difficulty of combining work and family activities, both of which are “greedy institutions. The goal of this workshop is to present research on satisfaction with work/family trade-offs among women academics and for full and emerita professors to speak of both the impediments and positive aspects of family care in their long sociological careers. These aspects include trailing spouses, timing of children, stopping the tenure clock, publishing, and day care issues. Panelists will analyze these aspects of family relations, and its impact on career mobility or marginality in sociology, and its impact on satisfaction with both of the greedy institutions. Members of the undergraduate honors program, who are beginning their sociological careers, will direct questions to workshop participants in order to better understand the career complications that they may face as they aspire to career success.

This is a joint workshop hosted by the Retirement Network, as its annual workshop in conjunction with Undergraduate Honors Program.

Sub Unit

• Workshops / Professional Development Workshop

Session Organizers

• Roberta M. Spalter-Roth, American Sociological Association & George Mason University Center for Social Science Research

• Dennis M. Rome, Columbus State University

Co-Leaders

• Marcia Texler Segal, Indiana University Southeast

• Pamela Stone, Hunter College

• Joya Misra, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• Sandra L. Hanson, Catholic University of America

• Steven A. Tuch, George Washington University