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van Engen, Marloes L.; Bleijenbergh, Inge L.; Beijer, Susanne E. – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
This study describes how parents in academia negotiate their professional identity in relation to dominant discourses of science as a calling. Based on in-depth interviews with men and women academics in a Dutch university, five discursive strategies are distilled that reconcile contradictory claims of academia and parenthood. Parents are…
Descriptors: Mothers, Fathers, Child Rearing, College Faculty