Asking Big: Creating a Culture of Support for Academic Mothers’ Advocating in Times of Crisis

A. Bender, Jackie Hoermann-Elliott
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This essay brings into focus institutional inequities faced by academic parents that stem from the systematic socialization of women to remain silent about their professional and personal needs under ideal circumstances and even more so in times of crisis. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic’s changing higher education policies daily, we argue there has never been a better time for us to ask for more when academic women, especially those identifying as mothers, are suffering professionally and personally. We trace key cultural insights and recent research regarding how the global pandemic has increased the strain that academic mothers feel, particularly BIPOC mothers, before calling on readers to reclaim their right to advocate on behalf of their and their families’ needs. We conclude by defining the culture of asking we seek to foster at our own institution and make recommendations for how readers might “ask big” at their home institutions.
问大:在危机时期创造一种支持学术母亲倡导的文化
这篇文章聚焦于学术父母面临的制度不平等,这些不平等源于女性在理想情况下对自己的职业和个人需求保持沉默的系统社会化,在危机时期更是如此。由于新冠肺炎疫情每天都在改变高等教育政策,我们认为,当学术女性,尤其是那些被认定为母亲的女性,在职业和个人上遭受痛苦时,我们要求更多的时候再好不过了。我们追踪了关键的文化见解和最近的研究,这些研究涉及全球疫情如何增加了学术母亲,尤其是BIPOC母亲的压力,然后呼吁读者收回代表她们和家人需求进行宣传的权利。最后,我们定义了我们在自己的机构中寻求培养的提问文化,并就读者如何在自己的学校中“提出大要求”提出建议。
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