Table 2.
Sample demographics by gender, personal characteristics
| Academic Mothers | Academic Fathers | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | N | % | ||
| Academic Discipline | Business | 8 | 6.0 | 1 | 14.3 |
| Humanities | 31 | 23.1 | 1 | 14.3 | |
| Natural and Applied Sciences | 35 | 26.1 | 1 | 14.3 | |
| Other | 6 | 4.4 | 1 | 14.3 | |
| Social Sciences | 54 | 40.1 | 3 | 42.9 | |
| Faculty Position | Adjunct | 17 | 12.6 | 1 | 14.3 |
| Instructor | 13 | 9.6 | – | – | |
| Professional/non-tenure-track | 24 | 17.8 | 1 | 14.3 | |
| Tenure-track, untenured | 31 | 23.0 | 3 | 42.9 | |
| Tenured | 48 | 35.6 | 2 | 28.6 | |
| Other | 2 | 1.5 | – | – | |
| Number of Children | 1 | 47 | 35.1 | 5 | 71.4 |
| 2 | 65 | 48.5 | 1 | 14.3 | |
| 3 | 20 | 14.9 | – | – | |
| 4 | 2 | 1.5 | 1 | 14.3 | |
| Age of Youngest Child | 0–2 | 29 | 21.6 | 4 | 57.1 |
| 3–6 | 51 | 38.1 | 1 | 14.3 | |
| 7–10 | 34 | 25.4 | -- | -- | |
| 11–14 | 16 | 11.9 | 1 | 14.3 | |
| 15–18 | 4 | 0.03 | 1 | 14.3 | |
| Race/Ethnicity | Asian or Pacific Islander | 4 | 3.0 | – | – |
| Black or African American | 5 | 3.7 | – | – | |
| Caucasian or White | 113 | 83.7 | 7 | 100 | |
| Hispanic or Latino/a | 7 | 5.2 | – | – | |
| Multiracial or Biracial | 3 | 2.2 | – | – | |
| Native American or Alaskan Native | 1 | 0.7 | – | – | |
| Other | 2 | 1.5 | – | – | |
| Total Sample | 134 | 100 | 7 | 100 | |