ABSTRACT

Tenure track faculty face a multitude of work–family demands as part of their progression in academia. By engaging in a autoethnography, we examine the amount of time spent in institutional, spousal, parental, and personal demands. This research note, illuminates relational and logistical qualities of that time, providing additional depth to the concept of work–family balance. We scrutinize the interplay that institutional, spousal, parental, and personal demands have on both the amount of time dedicated and the quality of time spent engaging in each demand. Project implications highlight two possible suggestions for other tenure track faculty. First, the opportunity to embed different demands can be an effective way to mitigate the finite amount of time in a given day. Second, engaging in self-reflection can be both an informative and therapeutic process for tenure track faculty balancing work–family commitments.

摘要

终身制教师在学术界面临着众多的工作-家庭需求。通过从事民族志，我们研究了在机构，配偶，父母和个人需求上花费的时间。该研究笔记阐明了当时的关系和后勤素质，为工作与家庭平衡的概念提供了更多的深度。我们仔细研究机构，配偶，父母和个人需求对投入的时间量和满足每个需求所花费的时间质量的相互作用。项目含义为其他终身制教师提出了两个可能的建议。首先，嵌入不同需求的机会可能是减轻给定时间的有限时间的有效方法。第二，