Overworked faculty : job stresses and family demands
By: JACOBS, Jerry A
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Contributor(s): WINSLOW, Sarah E.
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ArticlePublisher: Thousand Oaks : SAGE, November 2004The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science 596, p. 104-129Abstract: Do professors put in very long workweeks solelyout of a love their work, or do expections for teaching and publishing essentially require a sixty-hour workweekfor the successful completion of the job? How do facultymembers reconcile the demands of an academic career with the realities of family life? Drawing on a large national survey of postsecondary faculty conducted in 1998, the authors examine the length of the workweek by analyzing its relationship to faculty dissatisfation with their workload. The authors find evidence that many professors are dissatisfied with their workload. Moreover, dissatisfation increases among those working the longest hours. The authors find evidence that many professors are dissatisfied with theirworkload. Moreover, dissatisfation increases among those working the longest hours. The data also indicate that very long hours on the job greatly contribute to research productivity. The very long hours demanded by faculty jobs thus pose a dilemma for parents who want to spend time with their children and their families. The authors conclude by suggesting that the challenge is to create a set of expectations for academic employment that are compatible with responsible parenting in dual-career couples
Do professors put in very long workweeks solelyout of a love their work, or do expections for teaching and publishing essentially require a sixty-hour workweekfor the successful completion of the job? How do facultymembers reconcile the demands of an academic career with the realities of family life? Drawing on a large national survey of postsecondary faculty conducted in 1998, the authors examine the length of the workweek by analyzing its relationship to faculty dissatisfation with their workload. The authors find evidence that many professors are dissatisfied with their workload. Moreover, dissatisfation increases among those working the longest hours. The authors find evidence that many professors are dissatisfied with theirworkload. Moreover, dissatisfation increases among those working the longest hours. The data also indicate that very long hours on the job greatly contribute to research productivity. The very long hours demanded by faculty jobs thus pose a dilemma for parents who want to spend time with their children and their families. The authors conclude by suggesting that the challenge is to create a set of expectations for academic employment that are compatible with responsible parenting in dual-career couples
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