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Making the invisible visible: Recrafting the discourse surrounding women caregivers in academia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 May 2023

Nitya Chawla*
Affiliation:
Department of Management, Mays School of Business, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
Kristie M. Rogers
Affiliation:
College of Business Administration, Marquette University, Milwaukee, USA
Beth S. Schinoff
Affiliation:
Department of Management and Organization, Carroll School of Management, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, USA
*
*Corresponding author: Nitya Chawla, email: nchawla@mays.tamu.edu

Abstract

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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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Footnotes

The first two authors contributed equally to this article. Authorship was determined based on alphabetical order. At the end of the 2022–2023 academic year, Nitya will be a faculty member of the Work and Organizations group at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management.

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