Diverse Issues in Higher Education, Nov. 13, 2008 by Gregory A. Patterson
http://diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_11946.shtml
Mason … co-director of the Berkeley Center on Health, Economic & Family Security, says higher education could be at the beginning of a sea change sweeping women away from tenuretrack jobs. Women are opting for academe’s second-tier posts, filling in the part-time, adjunct and lecturer ranks, becoming what Mason calls the ‘gypsy scholars’ of the university world.
“The decision to have a child on the tenure track was not a decision at all,” Murray says. “For me the bigger question was, how was I going to make the tenure track work around my decision to have a family.”