More on the work-life-balance penalty, this time from Inside Higher Ed today, and much more stark. "Certainly our most important finding has been that family negatively affects women’s, but not men’s, early academic careers. Furthermore, academic women who advance through the faculty ranks have historically paid a considerable price for doing so, in the form of much lower rates of family formation, fertility, and higher rates of family dissolution.” For men, however, the pattern has been either neutral or even net-positive.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:47:25 +0000