Balancing Career and Family in Higher Education — New Trends and Results

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ID20076670
AuthorsInken Lind (corresponding author)
Year2008
Pages193-208
Publication date2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueGender Equality Programmes in Higher Education (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherVS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1007/978-3-531-91218-9_14
OpenAlexW952519988
ISBN9783531912189
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited12

There is general agreement that Germany currently offers only limited possibilities in the sciences for achieving the work-life-balance needed for compatibility of job and family. This manifests itself predominantly in the low numbers of female professors who have children. The situation of the coming generation of scientists, both male and female, has recently been receiving attention with respect to existing children and balancing a career in science and a family (). Meanwhile, a look across the borders demonstrates that the situation for balancing a scientific career with family looks completely different in other European countries where there is evidence of higher numbers of female scientists with children (, ). Results obtained so far on this topic largely refer to the life and working situations of female scientists with children () or focus on the number of female scientists pursuing careers with or without children (, ). Very few findings exist on the determinants of scientific institutions responsible for scientists favouring a lifestyle without children.1

Balance (ability) · Family life · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Women in science · Work (physics) · Work–life balance · Engineering · Gender Studies · Psychology · Social and Demographic Issues in Germany · Sociology and Education Studies · Work-Family Balance Challenges

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