ThePhdMom

This blog serves as clearinghouse and springboard for critical discussions of Women in Higher Education. Specifically, issues concerning the perils of writing a dissertation while raising a family will be discussed. In addition, from time to time I will comment on “Mama Phd’s” place in the Academy post PhD, but I will mostly focus on how motherhood, and gender in general, shapes the Phd experience.

Gender theory demonstrates that all aspects of human interaction are gendered. Indeed in virtually all societies, gender serves as a broad social construction informing and limiting the concepts of difference, exclusion, and inclusion in the civic and moral ethos of a community. The academic community is no different! On this blog I hope to provide insight, support and encouragement to hundreds of Phd Moms out there looking for the light at the end of the tunnel (or the signatures on that final draft). We need an outlet!!!!!

Thephdmom