Work and Family Issues

From CGEU

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

[edit] News

• Rejecting the Academic Fast Track -- 1/15/2009
• So You Want Reduced Hours? -- 12/5/2007
• The Conservative Pipeline Problem -- 11/16/2007
• Satisfaction Gap -- 8/2/2007
• The "Family Friendly" Competition -- 4/25/2007
• University Aids Elis with Children: Doctoral Candidates to Receive Support from Grad. School after Childbirth or Adoption (Yale) -- 4/23/2007
• Making Grad School 'Family Friendly' (Princeton) -- 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 -- 9/12/2006
• Graduate Student Group Releases Childcare Study (Yale) 4/17/2006
• Slowing Down Tenure Time -- 2/28/2006
• Why Graduate Students Succeed or Fail -- 2/16/2006
• Nine University Presidents Issue Statement on Gender Equity -- 12/7/2005
• Making Room for Baby (Stanford) -- 12/7/2005
• New Rights for Pregnant Grad Students (Stanford) -- 11/15/2005
• Easing the Grad-Student Baby Blues -- 6/17/2004
• Singing the Grad-School Baby Blues -- 4/20/2004
• How Babies Alter Academic Careers -- 12/5/2003
• How Colleges Can Help Faculty Members with Children -- 12/5/2003
• Giving Birth in Graduate School -- 7/7/2003
• Great Expectations -- 5/20/2002
• The Backlash Against Academic Parents -- 2/22/2002
• Putting the AAUP's Family-Friendly Policies into Practice -- 1/28/2002
• Lessons for Academic Parents -- 10/15/2001
• The Scholarly Parent -- 1/5/2001

[edit] 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

[edit] Reports

• 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

[edit] 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)

[edit] Union Contract Language

• Childcare in CGEU local contracts

[edit] Legislation

• Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)

[edit] Bibliography

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