Using data from a national survey, this article focuses on career-related attitudes and behaviors of social work academics, paying particular attention to the status of female academics. Although the women and men in the sample were similar in many ways, the women experienced certain sources of stress and dissatisfaction that were not identified by the men, and thus their academic careers seem to have differed significantly from those of the men. The women aspired to be like their male counterparts. To do so, however, would require that they slant their careers more toward research than toward teaching.
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