Resources

 

• Yale Websites
• WFF Bibliography
• Research Centers, Institutes, and Libraries on Women and Gender
• Women in Academia
• Faculty and Family Life: Research Institutes, Policies, and Reports
• University Policies for Parental Leave

 

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Yale Websites

• Back-Up Child Care Current Yale faculty, students, and staff are eligible for 40 hours of subsidized backup child care per fiscal year. Its never too early to register for the service! Keep in mind, when traveling for work to meetings or conferences, Caregivers On Call may be able to provide parents with on-site child care. They have a national network with access to providers in all 50 states, including major metropolitan areas and smaller communities. For more information, visit their website or call the WorkLife Program at 432-8069.
• Office for Women in Medicine
• Larry Kramer Initiative for Gay and Lesbian Studies
• Society of Women in Science
• Women’s Health Research at Yale
• Women’s & Gender Studies Program
• Women in Management Student Interest Group
• Women Mentoring Women Database
• WYSE (Women and Youth in Support of Each Other)
• Yale Babysitting Service links Yale faculty and staff with Yale students interested in babysitting
• Yale Divinity Women’s Center
• Yale Journal of Law and Feminism
• Yale Law Women
• Yale Office of Institutional Research
• Yale University
• Yale University Libraries
• Yale University Women’s Organization
• Yale Women's Center
• Yale WorkLife Program

 

WFF Bibliography

The Women Faculty Forum Bibliography contains over 640 references of recent research about women in higher education, including the following topics: gender bias in the academy, tenure rates and challenges, balancing work and family, diversity, mentoring, hiring practices, women in the sciences, gender studies, institutional reports, and experiences of junior faculty.

Using the link above, you can search the bibliography by author, topic, or periodical.

Research Centers, Institutes, and Libraries on Women andGender

• National Council for Research on Women
• Institute for Women's Policy Research
• Brown University: The Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
• Columbia University: The Institute for Research on Women and Gender
• Cornell University, The President’s Council of Cornell Women
• Duke University, Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture (in the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University)
• Harvard University: Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
• Harvard University: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
• New York University: The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
• Rutgers University: Center for Women and Work
• Stanford University: Institute for Research on Women and Gender
• Smith College: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History Manuscripts
• University of California at Berkeley: The Beatrice Bain Research Group
• University of California at Berkeley: The Gender Consortium
• University of California at Berkeley: Center for Race and Gender (CRG)
• University of Chicago: Center for Gender Studies
• University of Maryland: Consortium on, Race, Gender and Ethnicity
• University of Michigan: The Center for the Education of Women
• University of Michigan: Institute for Research on Women and Gender
• University of Pennsylvania: Alice Paul Center for Research on Women and Gender

 

Women in Academia

• Female Science Professor Blog
• Listing of Web Sites Related to Women in Science and Technology
• Listing of Women's Studies Programs and Departments in the U.S. and abroad

 

Faculty and Family Life: Research Institutes, Policies, and Reports

• Report- Do Babies Matter?: The Effect of Family Formation on the Lifelong Careers of Women (2002)
  Mason, Mary Ann and Marc Goulden
  Graduate Division, University of California at Berkeley
  This report finds that family formation has a profound and generally deleterious effect on women attempting to achieve tenure in the university setting. Most importantly, the report finds a large gap between men and women academics who have babies early in their academic careers. There is a 24% gap in achieving tenure between women and men PhDs who have babies early in their career. Likewise, women who achieve tenure are far more likely than men to have no children at all. The report breaks down statistics regarding this situation by type of university and faculty (humanities, social sciences, sciences). The report also assesses the decision-making process women with children undergo as they determine whether they will remain in academia or not. Finally, the report makes suggestions for university administrations regarding how they should support young professors with children (particularly women) in terms of childcare, tenure clock manipulation, and financial support.
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  Dual Ladder Program: supports colleges and universities in their efforts to add to the existing tenure ladder a second legitimate, or dual, ladder for career advancement for those staff currently off the tenure line. http://www.sloan.org/programs/stndrd_dualcareer.shtml
  Workplace, Workforce and Working Families: program to enhance scholarly, business, and public understanding of the interaction of family and workplace and of how the workplace can be restructured to provide more choice in work hours to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse workforce. http://www.sloan.org/programs/stndrd_dualcareer.shtml
  Sloan Work and Family Research Network at Boston College is designed to support research and teaching, promote best practices at the workplace, and inform state policy on issues that affect the lives of working families and the places where they work.
  http://wfnetwork.bc.edu/
• The Center for Work Family Research at Penn State includes the Faculty and Families Project as well as the Mapping Project: Exploring the Terrain of U.S. Colleges and Universities for Faculty and Families.
• Workplace Flexibility 2010 is a campaign to support the development of a comprehensive national policy on workplace flexibility at the federal, state and local levels. Workplace Flexibility 2010 believes that social change occurs best through a combination of voluntary action and government action. The American workplace is a complex, constantly changing, and rich human environment. We believe the best policy approach to workplace flexibility must therefore combine thoughtful and careful government regulation, robust voluntary and individualized efforts by employers, and governmental support of innovative voluntary efforts.
• The Center for WorkLife Law is a research and advocacy center that seeks to eliminate employment discrimination against caregivers such as parents and adult children of aging parents. WorkLife Law is based at UC Hastings College of the Law and is directed by professor and author Joan C. Williams. It was founded as the Program on Gender, Work & Family in 1998 and is supported by research and program development grants, university funding, and private donations. The Center changed its name to WorkLife Law in October 2003 to better reflect its increasing emphasis on identifying discriminatory employment practices against caregivers and using the legal system to prevent discrimination.

 

University Policies for Parental Leave

Many universities provide leave, reduce teaching loads, and stop the tenure clock for all new parents. Below are links to leave policies at Yale and some of its peer institutions.

• Yale University, for FAS and the Schools of Architecture, Art, Divinity, Forestry and Environmental Studies, Law, and Management
• Yale University Revised Child Rearing Policy for Childbirth and Adoption
• Yale School of Medicine: Faculty Child Rearing Leave and Caregiving Leave (2005)
• Yale University Parental Support and Relief Policy for Graduate Students
• Harvard University, FAS
• Princeton University Faculty benefits
• Princeton University Junior Faculty tenure clock extension for childrearing
• Princeton University Child Care Policy for Graduate Students
• Stanford University: Work Life Office
• Stanford Faculty Handbook on Parental Leave
• Stanford University Childbirth Policy for Women Graduate Students
• University of California, Berkeley
• University of Chicago
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Southern California