Academic life and motherhood: Variations by institutional type

Higher Education

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 487-521

  Wolf Wendel, Lisa Ellen ^a   Ward, Kelly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Faculty; Institutional type; Work family

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744523828     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-005-0364-4     Document Type: Article

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