ABSTRACT
Women remain at the associate level longer than men do, and fewer women than men make it to the rank of full professor. Women also spend more time than their male counterparts on teaching, mentoring, and serving their institutions. This chapter addresses how to maintain one’s own research agenda while juggling additional commitments. Both women and men can be thrown off course by the change from the clearly defined time clock leading up to tenure to the more fluid timeline and sometimes fuzzier requirements for achieving the rank of full professor. Often professors feel overloaded but don’t know how their workload actually compares to that of their departmental colleagues. Because women in academia are more likely than men to have a partner who is also an academic and to value her partner’s career equally to her own, women will be especially attracted to programs that support dual hires.
