Where Does the Time Go with Professor Christine Tulley EP 453
Best of Both Worlds Podcast
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 802 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Professor Christine Tulley is professor of rhetoric and writing and founder and director of the Master of Arts in Rhetoric and Writing Program at the University of Findlay, and she has a special interest in understanding how women in academics-- especially those with kids -- spend their time. She and Laura get into the data in this interview, and then Sarah and Laura answer a listener question around dealing with the (sometimes inevitable!) need to cancel plans.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.0 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.0 | Hi, I'm Laura Vanderkamp. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist, and speaker. |
| 0:19.0 | And I'm Sarah Hart Unger, a mother of three, practicing physician, writer, and course creator. |
| 0:24.6 | We are two working parents who love our careers and our families. |
| 0:28.6 | Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. |
| 0:30.6 | Here we talk about how real women manage work, family, and time for fun. |
| 0:34.6 | From figuring out child care to mapping out long-term career goals, |
| 0:38.6 | we want you to get the most out of life. Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. This is Laura. This |
| 0:48.5 | episode is airing in April of 26. I am going to be Christine Tolley, who is a professor at Fenley |
| 0:56.3 | University. She came across my radar because she did a large study of how academic mothers |
| 1:03.3 | spend their time using time diaries, looking at all 168 hours of the week, came to some |
| 1:09.9 | interesting conclusions about what people |
| 1:13.0 | who are successfully building their academic careers while raising kids do perhaps differently |
| 1:18.7 | than other people. So I talk with her a lot about that, fascinating stuff. I am curious in |
| 1:24.9 | terms of who comes to you asking for time use advice. Is academics the highest |
| 1:29.9 | proportion? Or what would you say is like the top five industries that people are in? Yeah. Well, I mean, |
| 1:35.8 | a lot of times it's basic corporate stuff. And then people in sort of fields known for longer hours, |
| 1:42.6 | like the legal world or the accounting world. But I have |
| 1:45.9 | studied quite a few academic time logs over the years. And I think the challenge for academia, |
| 1:52.3 | like getting tenure in many cases is the goal. And it's very much an up or out kind of thing. |
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