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Intro

Framework

Methods

Codes

Findings

“...it felt very difficult to have a voice on or to feel like my ideas were being heard even though I’d had a lot of experience relevant to what we were studying...but no one really seemed to ever address it or seemed to ever do anything other than kind of joke or laugh about the fact that it was a “boy’s club” kind of dynamic.” Interviewee #2

Conclusion

pink

ROADS

Lack of research

continually reflecting

upon our present & future careers

Rationale

shape

shared interest

decisions & identities

in academia

How do female doctoral students

make meaning of their career paths?

of

CROSS

education

cobblestone

self-determination

Seigfried's (1991) "woman-ness"

+

Kristeva's (1984) "becoming"

Torche (2011)

(vs. epistemological standpoint)

satisfaction

circumstances

Lin (2011)

(vs. "being")

Ph.D. degree...

Higher education...

Gottfredson's (1981) CCS-C theory

Super's (1980) life-career rainbow

&

completion

marriage

earnings

MAK-

MEAN-

-ING

leadership

childbearing

career paths

around the

Reduce power

differential

Analytic memos

"emic" coding

member checking

&

emerging categories

Cross-examine transcripts

Researcher/Participant

Dual Roles

semi-structured

interviews

Reciprocal

Female Ph.D. Students Reflect on their Career Journey

"code book" of thematic categories

Tower

poetry

Ivory

found

Glesne (1999)

Emergent...

themes

categories

&

“I’m not sure where I’m heading and that can be really scary, to be honest.” Interviewee #4

Looking back

Looking forward

The Eternal Becoming

Looking around

visual overview...

“I was home watching the Buddhist channel. And I heard the Buddhist message … Buddhist monk gave me very good lesson … Somehow that Buddhist master really woke me up

to coming back to school." Interviewee #5

“Making small decisions along the way helped me reassure that I was going through the right path." Interviewee #3

Ubuntu

“Being in the community ... I want to give back to my community and help those individuals who have a hard time finding resources in Spanish because they think it’s really really hard ... It’s important to me because I came from a community that isn’t , it does not have a lot of resources." Interviewee #1

Create a Better Self

The Human Drive

Create a Better World

“I also want to have more of an impact than just the individuals that I work with. I think that I see the potential to have a greater impact through being involved in academia, through being involved in teaching and research ... really wanting to be of help and service and seeing that this might be the way to do it on a larger scale… that I can do." Interviewee #2

“That plays a big role in … getting into retirement and say: Do I have, you know, did I have a fulfilling life … even if my career doesn’t? It's not that, that, that, umm… that shining and good in terms of general standards, how... I know I am going to follow my own standards and for me, ... the standards are going to be higher if I am able to manage to… to… come to my own." Interviewee #3

“But we have a different way of thinking, a different desire, a different concept of what goodness means, so we can balance the world, so I think being a woman is very important in that sense.” Interviewee #5

Soft-core

Intersectionality

The Pink Factor

Bittersweet

“Being a woman has always been in conjunction with my culture and my ethnicity. I have never seen them as separate. I have always wanted to break away from the [gender expectations] because I always thought that as a woman, we can do more than just stay at home to take care of kids and take care of house, which is what my culture sort of expects from women. I always wanted to break away from that and do something more with my life." Interviewee #1

“In education, because women have such a strong presence, I never feel disadvantaged by being a woman or that my voice isn't valued in being a woman. I feel like it's a very good department to be in, in terms of just feeling like an equal member of the classroom." Interviewee #4

Thank you!

How do female graduate students

evaluate their success?

Questions

for

future

How do male graduate students

make meaning of their career paths?

Implications

research

female role models &

strong support network

need for..

time & space to talk about

the balance family-career

rethinking the structures & processes of academia

Questions?

Arellys Aguinaga | Antía González Ben

Laura Hamman | Abigail Lindemann | Lai Wong

International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry

May 24, 2014

I didn’t fully know that part of the “game” of academia

was not saying that you were

thinking about a family

So I brought that up with a male advisor early on

and he described an example of like,

“Oh, no problem.

Just bring your baby to class and you’ll teach and it won’t

be an issue”

And I feel like it was him in some way trying to

connect

with

me

and it felt like, ok, he might not be someone

I should talk to about

the challenge that I see

having a family

and pursuing my career to its fullest.

Abby, ed. by Laura

"Learning How

to Play the Game"

Feminism as strategic stance

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