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Academic culture is rife with unspoken bias against faculty caregiving. Women especially are suspected of slacking off when colleagues learn they're caregivers as well as scholars. Faculty parents struggle to live up to others' and their own expectations in multiple roles.
Work-life issues inspired an ambitious "Mapping Project" by Penn State faculty Dr. Carol L. Colbeck, associate professor of education and director of Penn's Center for the Study of Higher Education, and Dr. Robert Drago, professor of labor studies and women's studies. Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the project started with a survey of 5,087 chemistry and English faculty nation-wide ...