Faculty Service Loads and Gender: Are Women Taking Care of the Academic Family?

Research in Higher Education

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 672-694

  Guarino, Cassandra M ^a   Borden, Victor M H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic service; Faculty; Gender

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017138365     PISSN: 03610365     EISSN: 1573188X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11162-017-9454-2     Document Type: Article

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