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It takes a [helpful] village: Recognizing and minimizing unhelpful help to better support female caregivers in academia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 May 2023

Lauren Offermann*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, USA
Cheryl E. Gray
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, USA
Jennifer Bragger
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, USA
Rick A. Laguerre
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, USA
*
*Corresponding author. Email: linzenbergl1@montclair.edu

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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

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