Male Professors Face Their Own Challenges in Balancing Work and Home; Chronicle of Higher Education, 3/21/10

Peter Schmidt, Chronicle of Higher Education; Male Professors Face Their Own Challenges in Balancing Work and Home:

"A fair amount has been written about efforts by women on college faculties to balance the demands of academe and home, but little scholarly attention has been paid to how male faculty members deal with such concerns.

Maike Ingrid Philipsen, a professor of education at Virginia Commonwealth University and author of the 2008 book Challenges of the Faculty Career for Women (Jossey-Bass), recently teamed up with Timothy P. Bostic, a research scientist at Old Dominion University's Darden College of Education, to try to close this gender gap. In doing the research for Helping Faculty Find Work-Life Balance: The Path Toward Life-Friendly Institutions, to be published by Jossey-Bass in the fall, they interviewed 41 male professors, who were at various stages of their careers. The professors came from a community college, a flagship university, a historically black college, a comprehensive public university, and a small, private university focused on the liberal arts.

Mr. Bostic and Ms. Philipsen shared what they had learned with The Chronicle in an e-mail interview:..."

http://chronicle.com/article/Male-Professors-Face-Their-Own/64763/