Acknowledgments.

About the Authors.

Introduction.

The People.

The Places.

The Methods.

The Author: "I Had to Get Divorced to Find a Healthy Balance in My Life".

Organization of the Book.

1. Early Career: "It Is Tenure or It Is Nothing".

The Curse of Ill-Defined Expectations: "It’s a Moving Target".

Parents on the Tenure-Track: "I Always Feel Like My Attention Is Divided".

Single Women0.

The Two-Body Problem: "People Have to Think of This More as a Package Deal".

The Immigrant Scholar: "I Feel Many Times I Live Between Cracks".

Making It Work and Dealing with It: Enablers and Coping Strategies: "Keep Moving and Getting It Done".

2. Mid-Career: "I’m Not Sleepwalking; I’m Making Decisions".

Lumbering Under the Load: "It’s Only Work, Work, Work".

Mothering in Mid-Career: "We Are the Ones Who Never Have the Cookies Baked".

Defining Your Identity: "I Didn’t Want to Play This Game Anymore".

Making It Work and Dealing with It: "Psyching Out What Does Really Count and Reconciling That with My Own Values and Priorities".

3. Late-Career: "This Is Who I Am, and I’m Going to Be Who I Want to Be".

Defining the Relationship: "You’ve Reached That Level of Self-Actualization".

Providing Elder Care: "Those of Us Who Are the Sandwich Generation".

Regrets and Sacrifices: "There Are Always Costs".

About Pioneers and Outsiders: "Nobody Is Going to Give a Five-Year Grant to a Seventy-Five-Year-Old Woman".

Thinking About Retirement: "I Just Hope I Know When It Is Time to Leave".

Making It Work and Dealing with It: Enablers and Coping Strategies0.

4. Comparisons0.

Men: "I Still Experience a Lot of Male Privilege".

Generations: "We Still Have Strides to Make, but at the Same Time, We Have Come a Long Way".

5. Recommendations0.

What Women Want: Reform of Academe0.

While Women Wait: Advice for the Interim0.

Conclusion0.

Appendix A: Balancing Professional and Personal Lives-A Quantitative Assessment, by Tim Bostic0.

Appendix B: The Survey0.

Appendix C: Frequencies and Histograms 0.

References0.

Index.