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This chapter is titled “Navigating Rush Hours” to acknowledge the many stories Women Professors (WPs) have shared about how they navigated the busyness and complexity of their lives and their progression of women up the academic ladder. In this final chapter, we reflect on provisions to support academic women’s career progression, propose future research directions and comment on the importance of university leaders in addressing the low proportion of women in the professoriate.
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The first letter indicates whether the data source was the survey (S), focus group interview (FG), individual phone interview (IP), or individual email interview (IE). The second letter indicates if the academic was female (F) or male (M). A one- to three-digit code was also assigned to participants in the surveys (N = 520), focus group interviews (n = 21), and individual phone and email interviews (n = 8).
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X indicates the type of support that is needed; (X) indicates the type of support that might be needed.
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The term “adjunct” can also refer to a temporary position held by junior academic staff.
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Diezmann, C., Grieshaber, S. (2019). Navigating Rush Hours. In: Women Professors. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3685-0_10
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