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Vol. 32 (2012)

Queen Bees and Mommy Tracking: How's an Academic Woman Supposed to Get Ahead?

  • Helene A. Cummins
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21423/awlj-v32.a90
Submitted
June 16, 2017
Published
2017-06-12

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to highlight the socio-cultural variables that detract from women's success in academe. The focus is on all women academics, whether partnered or not, and how mommy tracking and the queen bee may also work to hold women back. Implications of these issues for women academics are explored.