Juggling Flaming Chainsaws: Academics in Educational Leadership Try to Balance Work and Family (Hc)

Challenges of work—life balance in the academy stem from policies and practices which remain from the time when higher education was populated mostly by married White male faculty. Those faculty were successful in their academic work because they depended upon the support of their wives to manage many of the not—work aspects of their lives. Imagine a tweedy middle—aged white man, coming home from the university to greet his wife and children and eat the dinner she’s prepared for him, and th...