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Why higher ed needs to get rid of the gender gap for 'academic housekeeping'

  • Written by Cassandra Guarino, Professor of Education and Public Policy, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Riverside
imageAcademia requires a lot of work outside the lecture hall. Matej Kastelic/Shutterstock.com

With the academic year entering full swing, I find myself concerned about the quality of my female colleagues’ lives as they face a mountain of what is known as “service work” in addition to their teaching and research responsibilities.

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