Do Babies Matter?

The Rise of Women PhDs

Women PhDs in the Sciences

What Happens to Men and Women After They Get Their PhDs?

SDR

Who Gets Tenure?

Who Gets Tenure in Science?

Men 38% More Likely

Single Mothers more successful

Second Tier

Men with early babies 2

Women late babies

Pipeline

14 Shifting Career Goal away from Professor with Research Emphasis: UC Postdoctoral Scholars

Paid Maternity Leave

What is the cost of career on family formation?

Family Status

Getting Divorced

Fast-Track Professionals

Make or Break Decade: Timing is Everything

Baby Lag

women one in three women

wished they could have had more children

Divorce

Single 12 Years Out

OMG I forgot to have a baby

Double Measure

What are your next Steps

Personal Strategies STAY ON THE FAST TRACK  Don’t Marry a Jerk  Stay in the Game  Learn Mother Time  Mind Your Mentor  Take a Chance on Second Chances

Best Practices LEAVES  Paid maternal disability leave or active service modified duties for mothers (usually 1-2 semesters of teaching relief)  Active service modified duties for fathers (usually one semester of teaching relief)  Parental leave (typically one semester for men as well as women)  Centralized funding for maternity and parental leaves

Best Practices STOP-THE-CLOCK  Stop-the-clock policy for mothers, triggered automatically (unless people opt out)  Stop-the-clock policy for fathers, triggered automatically (unless people opt out)

Best Practices DUAL CAREER SUPPORT  Establish dual career protocol  Specific university official employee to help with dual career hiring  Provide centralized funding to help departments fund positions for second hires

Best Practices PART TIME TENURE TRACK  Pre-tenure  Post-tenure

Best Practices CHILDCARE  Childcare center, with space for infants  Secure childcare positions for recruitment purposes  Offer dependent care travel grant  Emergency childcare

Best Practices MISCELLANEOUS  Adoption expenses  Lactation rooms

Creating and Sustaining a Family Friendly Culture POLICIES ALONE DO NOT WORK!  Make room for fathers  All policies are entitlements not requests (centrally funded, if possible)  Deans and Chairs Training and Toolkit  Well advertised and publicly posted explanations of benefits for all level of scholars (including graduate students and postdocs)  A high level administrator and a legal counsel responsible for advertising and enforcing the policies

# of Children at UCB

Coming Soon!  Do Babies Matter?  The Four Patterns of Gender Bias and How to Ensure They Don’t Derail your Career  How Do Your Workplace Policies Measure Up?  Double Jeopardy: Women of Color in Science  Some Things are Illegal  It’s Cheaper to Keep Her LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD - WORKSHOPS IN A BOX A series of workshops for stepping up retention of women in the STEM pipeline.

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