"Survival in a Crack":The Lack and Generation of Autonomy of"Ph.D.Mother"Academic Time
With the gender equality and reproductive policy support for women to provide upward mobility of academic channels,female doctors taking children to school has become a common phenomenon in universities.In this study,13"Ph.D.mothers"from 5 universities were interviewed in-depth to explore their academic life and time dilemma from the perspective of time sociology.The study found that the return to school is a kind of time representation of subject time embeddedness and identity overlap under the reversal of the established social clock,the"Ph.D.clock"and the"social clock"together strengthen the stratification of the time structure,and provide reasonable self-discipline.In the light of the cultural context,in order to break through the structural regulation of academic action by the punishment of motherhood and the gender division of labor"Ph.D.mothers"seek the balance of time structure and construct academic autonomous time with moral constraint.This research starts from the time dilemma of"Ph.D.mothers",but also points to the more concerned women's time issue,that is,how can society give more policy support and humanistic care to women in the social context of gender equality.