“Academic careers often take people away from the support networks that help to raise a child, care for an aging parent, or weather a medical emergency.”
For seven years (very late 2009 or very early 2010 to very late 2016) I cared for my terminal-ill wife while working on my scholarship. I was a caregiver and in the widest sense, an academic.
Emily C. Bloom is a public-humanities fellow at Sarah Lawrence College and the author of I Cannot Control Everything Forever: A Memoir of Motherhood, Science, and Art.
In The Higher Education Supplement (THE; July 26, 2024) Bloom wrote “Why the Caregiving Crisis Is Driving Scholars Out of Higher Ed: The high cost of child and elder care are driving scholars out of academe.”
Emily C. Bloom does not know it, but the problem is not merely the failing health system in the United States. It is about how society does politics to get decision-makers to actually care. The solutions are there, if only decision-makers cared enough about the abuse of our economy.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-caregiving-crisis-is-not-going-away?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_10586484_nl_Academe-Today_date_20240729&sra=true
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