This article is powerful: hybridpedagogy/journal/contingent-mother-role-gender-plays-lives-adjunct-faculty/ ...and worth considering. At the same time, and without diminishing anything this article has to say, the entire academic system discourages family, tenure-track or otherwise. (This article may be right, in that it discourages it moreso in women than in men._ This is not to say that family is impossible -- I have several friends who have made it work, and I salute them, and I recognize the sacrifices that they and their spouses have made to make it work. They are always sacrifices that exceed, it seems to me, the sacrifices my non-academic friends must make, because they tend to start families later, at a position of diminished relative wealth (after 7 years on Ramen), because their career choice places mobility in tension with stability, and so on. What I cannot tell is whether the system privileges certain kinds of family arrangements, or whether the system attracts certain personality types who then inadvertantly sustain the privilege of certain family arrangements. Does university life discourage the construction of families, or does university life attract personality types that tend away from family?
Posted on: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 14:00:48 +0000
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