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...often decline to take advantage of family-friendly policies either “for fear of retribution” or out of concern “that they will be seen as less than serious scholars,” according to Harvard Graduate School of Education researcher Cathy A. Trower, who advised the panel of presidents...
...scholars are saying, ‘We want a quality of life. We’d like to have that in the academy, but we’re not sure we can,’” according to Trower...
...Such a system also tends to ask other white males who the ‘best’ scholars are out there, and all they can think of is people like themselves—the ‘reflecting pool’ phenomenon,” Trower writes in an e-mail...
However, the people replacing the retiring white men are of a different breed altogether. Trower says that the next generation of academics—both male and female—places a higher value on quality of life than its predecessors. This new emphasis might be chasing young scholars away from the rigid demands of the academy and towards the more flexible benefits of the business world...
This phenomenon will continue until women reach what Trower calls a “critical mass” within their department or field. She says a critical mass is usually considered to be roughly 15 percent of the members of a department...