This article provides great advice for institutions and women faculty about how to make family and tenure track careers work for women.

“Do colleges support professors who are mothers trying to balance their parental and professional responsibilities? Every few months, there is a debate prompted by a campus controversy or a new study. Two scholars of the issue have written a new book, Academic Motherhood: How Faculty Manage Work and Family (just published by Rutgers University Press), based on surveys, interviews and extensive research.”

Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/10/09/authors-discuss-new-book-academic-motherhood#ixzz2B0zdPKB3
Inside Higher Ed