Presentation
A Conversation on the Need for Women to Successfully Manage their Multiple Identity Dimensions in Order to Persist in the Doctoral Process
Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy
(2015)
Abstract
This conversation focuses on challenges specific to female doctoral students given their multiple dimensions of identity (e.g., wife, mother, daughter, professional, emerging scholar) and the tensions they experience as they intersect these dimensions across the varied stages of the doctoral journey. This discussion is prompted by research indicating many women fail to successfully negotiate these tensions and consequently choose not to begin or cease to persist in a doctoral program. In this session we discuss (a) tensions women face in the doctoral process, (b) a theoretical foundation for female identity, and (c) strategies for successfully intersecting multiple identity dimensions, leading to doctoral persistence.
Keywords
- female identity,
- doctoral persistence,
- grounded theory,
- doctoral attrition
Disciplines
Publication Date
February 4, 2015
Citation Information
Lucinda S. Spaulding, Amanda J Rockinson-Szapkiw and Maria T Spaulding. "A Conversation on the Need for Women to Successfully Manage their Multiple Identity Dimensions in Order to Persist in the Doctoral Process" Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy (2015) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/maria-spaulding/2/