Professor Mommy is designed as a guide for women who want to combine the life of the mind with the joys of motherhood. The book provides practical suggestions from the authors' experiences together with those of other women who have successfully combined parenting with professorships. Professor Mommy addresses key questionswhen to have children and how many, what kinds of academic institutions are the most family friendly, how to negotiate around the myths that many people hold about academic life, etc.for women throughout all stages of their academic careers, from graduate school through full professor. The authors follow the demands of motherhood all the way from the infant stages through the empty nest. At each stage, the authors offer invaluable advice and tested strategies from women who have successfully juggled the demands and rewards of an academic career and motherhood.

Written in clear, jargon-free prose, the book is accessible to women in all disciplines, with concise chapters for the time-constrained academic. The book's conversational tone is supplemented with a review of the most current scholarship on work/family balance and a survey of emerging family-friendly practices at U.S. colleges and universities. Professor Mommy asserts that the faculty mother has become and will remain a permanent fixture on the landscape of the American academy.The paperback edition features a new Preface that addresses the public conversation about mothers and work raised in Sheryl SandbergsLean Inand Ann Marie SlaughtersWhy Women Still Cant Have it All. The new Preface also answers frequently asked questions from readers.

Professor Mommy is designed as a guide for women who are trying to combine the life of the mind with the joys of motherhood. The book addresses key questions ¿ when to have children and how many, what kinds of academic institutions are the most family friendly, how to juggle research and teaching with your children's needs, etc. ¿ for women throughout all stages of their academic careers, from graduate school through full professor. The authors tackle these issues not only during the infant/toddler stages, but also follow the demands of motherhood all the way through the empty nest.

Chapter 1 Contents
Chapter 2 Introduction: Why We Decided to Write this Book and Who We Are Anyway
Chapter 3 Chapter 1: A Success Story Told with the Hindsight of 20/20 Vision
Chapter 4 Chapter 2: The Nefarious Nine or the Not-So-Pretty Truth about Motherhood and Academia
Chapter 5 Chapter 3: Know Thyself Part I -Deciding to Become an Academic
Chapter 6 Chapter 4: Know Thyself Part II -Deciding How Many Children to Have and When To Have Them
Chapter 7 Chapter 5: The Last Year of Graduate School: Heading for the Job Market and Choosing the Institution that is Right for You
Chapter 8 Chapter 6: On the Tenure Track Part I - Scholarship and Networking
Chapter 9 Chapter 7: On the Tenure Track Part II - Teaching, Service, and Your Family
Chapter 10 Chapter 8: The Immediate Post-Tenure Years
Chapter 11 Chapter 9: Coming up for Full Professor
Chapter 12 Conclusion
Chapter 13 Appendix 1: Different Types of Institutions
Chapter 14 Appendix 2: The Other Perspective: Words from our Children
Chapter 15 Suggested Reading