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Conference paper. ?Our study examines the strategies & practices that assist junior faculty in the promotion & tenure process. Specifically, we address faculty members' views regarding what it takes to succeed in academia, & whether these views vary by rank, gender, & race. Our data come from 40 in-depth interviews with assistant, associate, & full professors all of whom work in universities in the Southeast. Our findings address the dilemmas of mentoring, how race & gender affect relations between junior & senior faculty, particularly effective strategies &/or policies for helping junior faculty succeed, & the meaning of being a faculty member to junior & senior faculty. Our conclusions point to actions a university/college can take to help junior faculty 'succeed' at achieving tenure & promotion at their institutions.?--Sociological Abstracts abstract

Published data and previous research on law faculty were analyzed to examine whether women advance more slowly than men in the law academic labor market. Women moved more slowly than men across the boundary between secondary and primary jobs, influenced by a mixture of factors, including family and geographic constraints, social capital, employment origins, and opportunity structures in the academic labor market.--ERIC abstract

Investigated three explanations for persisting differences in women's faculty representation across science fields even after adjusting for women's variable representation among doctoral recipients: labor market factors, institutional explanations, and gender role explanations. After finding that none account fully for faculty gender composition, discusses how they may reflect differences in academic "cultures."--ERIC abstract

For women academics, deciding to have a baby is a career decision. Traditional narratives of the academic career must adapt to new demands and new constituencies.--from ERIC abstract

This study explores the relationship between work-life experience, including overload, role conflict, faculty interaction, academic advancement and aging considerations, and stress.

Discusses the role of parents in science, not necessarily academia. (DP)

Presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education, Portland, OR.--from site