{"id":3956,"date":"2021-05-03T12:49:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T16:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/?page_id=3956"},"modified":"2025-08-13T15:45:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T19:45:27","slug":"academic-abstract-care-work-and-academic-motherhood-challenges-for-research-and-tenure","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/our-research\/academic-abstract-care-work-and-academic-motherhood-challenges-for-research-and-tenure\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Abstract \u2013 Care Work and Academic Motherhood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Academic Abstract \u2013 Care Work and Academic Motherhood\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"care-work-and-academic-motherhood-challenges-for-research-and-tenure-in-the-canadian-university\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Care Work and Academic Motherhood: Challenges for Research and Tenure in the Canadian University<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><br>\nAcademic Abstract: <\/strong>This qualitative research project explored how women faculty experience work and motherhood in Canadian academia. A feminist thematic analysis of twenty interviews with academic mothers reveals the range of challenges that mothers encounter. Three semi-chronological yet intertwined themes related to academic motherhood were identified. First, the \u201cfear of post-partum academic erasure,\u201d emerged early in academic motherhood, capturing faculty mothers\u2019 experiences of feeling compelled to assert their physical and intellectual presence in the post-partum period, particularly during a maternity leave. The second theme, \u201cthe mommy tenure track,\u201d encapsulated faculty mothers\u2019 experiences of feeling unsupported by the university in their pursuit of promotion and tenure given care responsibilities associated with motherhood. The final theme, \u201cresearch while caring\u201d captures the tensions academic mothers experience between the research process and caring and subsequently, in response to said tensions, how they may pivot research priorities, programs, and objectives after becoming academic mothers. Implications of the findings are discussed with particular emphasis on future research opportunities in post-pandemic academia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Keywords:<\/strong> Academic motherhood, Care work, Tenure track, Discrimination, Family care<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"related-links\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related Links<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Authors:<br>\n<\/strong>Yvonne James, Ivy Bourgeault, <a href=\"https:\/\/sprott.carleton.ca\/profile\/merridee-bujaki\/\">Merridee Bujaki<\/a>, Stephanie Gaudet<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Related research:<\/strong><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/research-2\/masculine-structures-at-canadian-universities-hinder-womens-academic-careers\/\"><em>\u201cMy Path has not been a Standard Path\u201d: Academia as a Bourdieusian Field and How Assumptions of an Unencumbered Life Disadvantage Women<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Care Work and Academic Motherhood: Challenges for Research and Tenure in the Canadian University Academic Abstract: This qualitative research project explored how women faculty experience work and motherhood in Canadian academia. A feminist thematic analysis of twenty interviews with academic mothers reveals the range of challenges that mothers encounter. 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