MotherScholars&#039; Perceptions, Experiences, and the Impact on Work-Family Balance

Megan Reister

doi:10.5771/9781793648440

Summary

MotherScholars (mothers who work as faculty and staff members within higher education) juggle a multitude of roles—leader, researcher, wife, partner, mother, caregiver, advisor, teacher, mentor, volunteer. MotherScholars’ Perceptions, Experiences, and the Impact on Work-Family Balance shares how MotherScholars can achieve a work-family balance, even during the COVID-19 pandemic, and explores if there truly is a right way to go about achieving this balance. It can be a life-long and, at times, delicate journey as MotherScholars try to choose between the (often too) many opportunities they have before them. Despite the challenges, the opportunity to mother and work in so many capacities as a MotherScholar can lead to satisfaction and fulfilling purpose in a meaningful way as MotherScholars cultivate gratitude while seeking work-family balance, even during a pandemic.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-4843-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-4844-0
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 184
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Prelude No access
3. 1. A Reflection from a MotherScholar Who Is a Doctoral Candidate and Professor in Education No access
  2. Synopsis No access
  3. Purpose of the Study and Research Questions No access
4. Acknowledgments and Dedication No access
1. Vignette from Author No access
2. Vignette from Author No access
3. Historical Overview No access
4. Early Influences No access
5. Identity Integration No access
6. Framework No access
7. Research Design No access
1. 1. Personnel for the Research No access
  2. Data Source No access
2. 1. Quantitative Analysis No access
  2. Qualitative Analysis No access
3. Participants No access
4. 1. Key Themes: Three Essences No access
1. Family First No access
2. 1. Vignette from Author No access
  2. Role of Mother No access
  3. Parenting Informing Work and Vice Versa No access
3. 1. Passion No access
  2. Role Model No access
  3. Satisfaction from Work No access
4. 1. Productivity No access
  2. Flexibility No access
  3. Schedule No access
  4. Time No access
1. Interactions with Husbands, Children, and other Family Members No access
2. Interactions with Supervisors, Bosses, and Colleagues No access
3. Interactions with Students No access
4. Interactions with Peers and other Working Mothers No access
5. Setting No access
1. Childcare No access
2. 1. Role as Informational Source No access
3. 1. Vignette from Author No access
4. 1. Vignette from Author No access
5. Multitask No access
6. Guilt No access
7. Support No access
8. Limitations No access
1. 1. Vignette from Author No access
  2. Vignette from Author No access
1. 1. Sunday, 11/20/11: Teacher Turned Graduate Student at Start of Doctoral Program No access
2. 1. Friday, 03/08/13: Teacher Turned Graduate Student toward End of Doctoral Program No access
3. 1. Saturday, 04/27/13: What Rejection Taught about Purpose No access
4. 1. Wednesday, 03/05/14: Graduate Student at the End of Doctoral Program No access
5. 1. Saturday, 09/20/14: Graduate Student Turned Professor No access
6. 1. Sunday, 11/01/15: Professor MotherScholar at 21 weeks 6 days into the Pregnancy No access
7. 1. Tuesday, 04/12/16: MotherScholar on Maternity Leave with a Five-Week-Old Newborn No access
8. 1. Friday, 08/19/16: MotherScholar of a Five-Month Old No access
9. 1. Saturday, January 13, 2018: MotherScholar of a Soon to be Two-Year Old No access
10. 1. Thursday, 11/21/19: MotherScholar of a Three-Year Old No access
11. 1. Thursday, 04/30/20: MotherScholar of a Four-Year Old during the Pandemic No access
12. 1. Wednesday, 07/29/20: MotherScholar yet Daughter at Same Time No access
13. 1. Wednesday, 08/05/20: MotherScholar of a Four-Year Old Preparing for a Return to School during the Pandemic No access
14. 1. The Golden Circle No access
  2. On being Authentic, Vulnerable, and Daring Ourselves No access
  3. Vignette from Author No access
  4. Lighting (and Keeping Lit) Our Blue Flames No access
15. 1. Vignette from Author No access
16. Closing Thoughts No access
1. 1. Characteristics of Definitions of the Term “MotherScholar” from Selected Literature Base on MotherScholars No access
2. 1. Definition of Terms No access
3. 1. Theoretical Framework for Study No access
4. 1. Theoretical Model No access
5. 1. Relationship of Perceptions of Identity, Norms, Roles, and Mindsets No access
6. 1. Data Source No access
7. 1. Conceptual Model No access
References No access Pages 163 - 178
Index No access Pages 179 - 182
About the Author No access Pages 183 - 184