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May Babies and Posttenure Babies: Maternal Decisions of Women Professors
- The Review of Higher Education
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 27, Number 2, Winter 2004
- pp. 211-231
- 10.1353/rhe.2003.0046
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This research explores the maternal and career progression decisions of different generations of women professors in Canada. Nineteen women, interviewed in-depth, reveal how they carefully plan childbearing and childrearing experiences around their demanding work schedules, by having May babies or posttenure babies. Results demonstrate the need for alternative models of academic careers.