title: Work and family conflict in academic science: patterns and predictors among women and men in research universities.
abstract: This article addresses work-family conflict as reported among women and men academic scientists in data systematically collected across fields of study in nine US research universities. Arguing that academic science is a particularly revealing case for studying work-family conflict, the article addresses: (1) the bi-directional conflict of work with family, and family with work, reported among the scientists; (2) the ways that higher, compared with lower, conflict, is predicted by key features of family, academic rank, and departments/institutions; and (3) patterns and predictors of work-family conflict that vary, as well as converge, by gender. Results point to notable differences, and commonalties, by gender, in factors affecting interference in both directions of work-family conflict reported by scientists. These findings have implications for understandings of how marriage and children, senior compared with junior academic rank, and departmental climates shape work-family conflict among women and men in US academic science.
authors.affiliation: School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0345, USA. mary.fox@pubpolicy.gatech.edu
authors.forename: Mary Frank
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Fox
authors.forename: Carolyn
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fonseca
authors.forename: Jinghui
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bao
mesh_terms: D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004651:Employment / Q000523:psychology*; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005178:Faculty; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D012586:Science; D012737:Sex Factors; D014481:United States; D014495:Universities