{"id":1928,"date":"2026-03-10T13:40:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2026-03-10T13:44:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:44:50","slug":"between-tenure-and-toddlerhood-compatibility-of-family-and-career-in-academia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/between-tenure-and-toddlerhood-compatibility-of-family-and-career-in-academia\/","title":{"rendered":"Between Tenure and Toddlerhood: Compatibility of Family and Career in Academia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In summer\/fall 2025 chair woman Karen Kastenhofer made a survey within the Elise Richter Network on the compatibility of care duty and academic careers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Central questions were:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>How are academic careers (not) compatible with family \/ care duties?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What are the major shortcomings of the current situation? What drives these shortcomings?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What are the major upsides? What allows for these?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What could improve the current situation?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What are meaningful measures you experienced at Austrian institutions or elsewhere?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"801\" src=\"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ERNGraph-1024x801.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1929 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ERNGraph-1024x801.png 1024w, https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ERNGraph-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ERNGraph-768x601.png 768w, https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ERNGraph.png 1118w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The maybe not surprising result was that even today academics are struggling to consolidate care work and career requirements and that the individual institutional and local framework conditions are highly divers.  Precarious working conditions, short-term contracts and high geographical mobility as well as institutional and socio-cultural stigmata are domineering negative factors. Care work other than child care remains a blind spot.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The findings of the survey are summarized <a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/preprints\/socarxiv\/u4a9k_v1\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/preprints\/socarxiv\/u4a9k_v1\">here<\/a> and were presented in a stakeholder meeting organized by the <strong>Bundesministerium f\u00fcr Frauen, Wissenschaft und Forschung<\/strong> on the Topic &#8220;Vereinbarkeit und Karrieren in der Wissenschaft und Forschung&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file aligncenter\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/care-penalty-1.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of care-penalty.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-eefef696-4156-4bb9-8a0c-2dabf65c568d\" href=\"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/care-penalty-1.pdf\">care-penalty<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/care-penalty-1.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-eefef696-4156-4bb9-8a0c-2dabf65c568d\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In summer\/fall 2025 chair woman Karen Kastenhofer made a survey within the Elise Richter Network on the compatibility of care<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/between-tenure-and-toddlerhood-compatibility-of-family-and-career-in-academia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Between Tenure and Toddlerhood: Compatibility of Family and Career in Academia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-positions","category-news","category-statements"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"wen-travel-archive":false,"wen-travel-slider":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Vera Pfanzagl","author_link":"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/index.php\/author\/pfanzagl\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"In summer\/fall 2025 chair woman Karen Kastenhofer made a survey within the Elise Richter Network on the compatibility of careContinue readingBetween Tenure and Toddlerhood: Compatibility of Family and Career in Academia","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1949,"href":"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions\/1949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}