Work and Family Issues

From CGEU

Contents 1 News 2 Reports 3 Organizations 4 University Policies 5 Union Contract Language 6 Legislation 7 Bibliography

News

• "Family Friendly Science," InsideHigherEd.com, 9/27/2011
• "The Children They Never Had," InsideHigherEd.com, 8/9/2011
• "Too Nice to Land a Job," InsideHigherEd.com, 11/10/2010
• "Rejecting the Academic Fast Track," InsideHigherEd.com, 1/15/2009
• "So You Want Reduced Hours?" Chronicle of Higher Education, 12/5/2007
• The Conservative Pipeline Problem -- 11/16/2007
• "Satisfaction Gap," InsideHigherEd.com, 8/2/2007
• "The 'Family Friendl' Competition", InsideHigherEd.com, 4/25/2007
• "University Aids Elis with Children: Doctoral Candidates to Receive Support from Grad. School after Childbirth or Adoption," Yale Daily News, 4/23/2007
• "Making Grad School 'Family Friendly,'" InsideHigherEd.com, 4/4/2007
• "University Expands Family-Friendly Policies for Graduate Students" (Princeton), 4/3/2007
• Campus Will Grant Paid Maternity Leave to Women Doctoral Students (Berkeley), 3/7/2007
• Six Universities Win New Grants to Foster Flexible, Family-Friendly Faculty Policies -- 9/25/2006
• "The 'Family Friendly' Bonus," InsideHigherEd.com, 9/12/2006
• "Graduate Student Group Releases Childcare Study," Yale Daily News, 4/17/2006
• "Slowing Down Tenure Time," InsideHigherEd.com, 2/28/2006
• "Why Graduate Students Succeed or Fail," InsideHigherEd.com, 2/16/2006
• "Nine University Presidents Issue Statement on Gender Equity," InsideHigherEd.com, 12/7/2005
• "Making Room for Baby," InsideHigherEd.com, 12/7/2005
• "New Rights for Pregnant Grad Students," InsideHigherEd.com, 11/15/2005
• "Easing the Grad-Student Baby Blues," Chronicle of Higher Education, 6/17/2004
• "Singing the Grad-School Baby Blues," Chronicle of Higher Education, 4/20/2004
• "How Babies Alter Academic Careers," Chronicle of Higher Education, 12/5/2003
• "How Colleges Can Help Faculty Members with Children," Chronicle of Higher Education, 12/5/2003
• "Giving Birth in Graduate School," Chronicle of Higher Education, 7/7/2003
• "Great Expectations," Chronicle of Higher Education, 5/20/2002
• "The Backlash Against Academic Parents," Chronicle of Higher Education, 2/22/2002
• "Putting the AAUP's Family-Friendly Policies into Practice," Chronicle of Higher Education, 1/28/2002
• "Lessons for Academic Parents," Chronicle of Higher Education, 10/15/2001
• "The Scholarly Parent," Chronicle of Higher Education, 1/5/2001

Reports

• Pay Matters: The Positive Economic Impacts of Paid Family Leave for Families, Businesses and the Public, Center for Women and Work, 2012
• Graduate Student Parents and Family Life at the University of Chicago: A Preliminary Report, 9 June 2011
• Why Graduate Students Reject the Fast Track: A Study of Thousands of Doctoral Students Shows that They Want Balanced Lives
• Do Babies Matter: The Effect of Family Formation on the Life Long Careers of Academic Men and Women, Part I
• Do Babies Matter: The Effect of Family Formation on the Life Long Careers of Academic Men and Women, Part II
• Graduate Student Parents: The Underserved Minority
• Marriage and Baby Blues: Redefining Gender Equity in the Academy
• Mother's on the Fast Track: How a New Generation Can Manage Family and Careers
• Baby Blue: Parents and Their Families in the Yale Graduate School
• Hitting the Maternal Wall
• Balancing Work and Family for Faculty: Why it's Important
• Developing and Implementing Work-Family Policies for Faculty
• Fear Factor: How Safe is it to Make Time for Family
• Family Friendly Policies and the Research University
• Working Part Time After Tenure
• Paid Family Leave in California: New Research Findings

Organizations

• American Association of University Professors
• Labor Project for Working Families
• New Jersey Time to Care Coalition
• California Paid Family Leave
• Economic Opportunity Institute (Washington State)
• COACHE: The Collaberative on Academic Careers in Higher Education
• 9 to 5, National Association of Working Women
• National Partnership for Women and Families
• Center for WorkLife Law
• Human Rights Campaign
• Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School

University Policies

• Berkeley

• The UC Faculty Friendly Edge (Berkeley)
• UC Families -- interactive website and moderated newsletter
• Survey of Doctoral Students on Career, Family, and Life Plans (Berkeley)

• MIT
• Ohio State University

• Guidelines for Short-Term Absences and Leaves of Absence for Graduate Students Appointed as GAs, Fellows and Trainees

• Princeton
• Stanford
• University of Rhode Island

• Advance program (URI)
• Virtual Work-Life-Family Center

• University of Southern California

• Women in Science and Engineering (USC)

Union Contract Language

• Childcare in CGEU local contracts

Legislation

• Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)

Bibliography

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