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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"mothers in higher education"”.
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The Lived Experiences Of Single Black Mothers In Higher Education Leadership
… study was to provide a better understanding of the experiences of single Black mothers in higher educational leadership roles. Utilizing the Strong Black Woman framework, the mothers exposed the three major themes: unyielding strength, assumption of multiple roles, and self-sacrifice and …
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Capabilities eroded and childcare dilemmas: A phenomenological study of low-income single student mothers in higher education in the United States and Germany
… study was to explore the lifeworlds of low-income, single student mothers in two contrasting welfare regimes, the United States and Germany, to understand how their individual experiences as students and as mothers at the micro-level were shaped by policies regarding childcare and financial …
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Can We Have It All? Painting a Picture of the Adjunct, Clinical, and Tenured/ Tenure-Track Faculty Mother Experience At a Large Southern Public Research University
… norms have allowed faculty who were men to remain an ideal worker by being dedicated to work regardless of family status because they had a wife to keep up the domestic and childcare duties (Tierney & Bensimon, 1996; Wolf-Wendel & Ward, 2006). Although both men and women have served as faculty …
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Understanding the Lives and Labours of Lone-Mother Students
This study has explored the experiences of lone mothers and their labours as lone- mother students in Higher Education and en route to accessing Higher Education. The main aim of the study was to investigate barriers and constraints in provision of support for lone mothers wishing to study in …
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Impacts of Childbearing on College Success: A Study of Two Generations
Using descriptive statistics and logistic regressions, this study compared U.S. Census data from 22–24-year-old women in 1980 and 2020 to determine the individual and contextual variables most predictive of bachelor’s degree attainment. The regressions were conducted for women overall, women who …
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Not Appropriate for Children: A Look At the Composition Practices and Rhetorical Strategies of Single Moms in Academia
<p>This dissertation explores how single mothers in higher education across geographic locations, academic ranks, disciplines, and identities build support systems and draw on rhetorical strategies derived from their embodied knowledge to survive and navigate in academia. Single mother experiences …