Work/Life Balance Priority List
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QUESTION:
What issues do women faculty face in achieving work/life balance?
1. Demands are too
great/job culture (32 votes)
- To succeed in the
job you need to give up time with family (children, aging parents, etc.)
- How to say no to
additional time asked from you
- Does P&T committee
recognize time taken off to have children/do they know
- Time advising does
not count toward tenure
2. Care giving (31
votes)
- Time to deal with
children/aging parents
- Women are primary
care takers
- Unnatural to put
the roles aside
- Doesn't stop after
baby is born
- Contingency child
care
- Financial ability
to get help
3. Reproduction versus
career (20 votes)
- 12 month work for
9 month appointments
- Decision when and
if to have children
- Tenure clock timeline
is rigid
4. Expectations from
self/others (18 votes)
- Other faculty members
expectations (advising/serving as hostess) that conflict with society's
(daycare is negative)
- Effortless perfection
- Family members
who do not understand what you do/resent time given to job
- Expectations from
faculty members that have given up time with family and expect you to
do the same
- Impose problems
on ourselves, ambivalence to personal health/wellness
- Personal satisfaction
received from the job
5. Policy (12 votes)
- Implications of
using maternity leave
- Who is used as
the model (stars)
- Department balance
-- how do different departments make policies known, carry out policies
6. Things unique to
Blacksburg (7 votes)
- Spousal hiring
- Options for daycare,
lack of
- Being single
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