1. 1 What Your Institution Needs to Become an Employer of Choice for Working Mothers: Policies, Services, Supports & Resources Susan Abramson Manager, WorkLife and Child Care Yale University 12-9-11 HERC Presentation

2. Agenda  Background  Why?  Policies  Services & Supports  Challenges  What can you do?  Resources Susan Abramson - Yale University – 12-9-112

3. Background  Best Places to Work Lists  Robert Levering  Milton Moskowitz  Carol Evans Susan Abramson - Yale University – 12-9-113

4. Why?  Recruitment  Women  Top Talent  Diverse candidates  Retention  Workforce stability  Profitability (shareholders)  Decrease costs (hiring, training, less abseentism)  Benchmarking Susan Abramson - Yale University – 12-9-114

5. Policies  Parental leave  Caregiver leave  Phased return to work following leave  Sick Days  Vacation and personal time  Flexible work arrangements  Telecommuting  Community Service Susan Abramson - Yale University - 10/13/065

6. 6 Creating Family Friendly Policies  Collect and use data to demonstrate the need for the policy  Encourage collaboration among supportive individuals and institutional groups  Examine and articulate policy goals  Use precise, positive and normative language "Developing and Implementing Work – Family Policies for Faculty" by Beth Sullivan, Carol Hollenshead and Gilia Smith inDeveloping and Implementing Work – Family Policies for Faculty" Academe: Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors (vol. 90 No. 6).

7. Services & Supports  Child Care/Eldercare/Special needs  Back up care  Training/Education  On-site ■ Off-site support ■ Tuition reimbursement  Career Development  Career Advancement opportunities  Mentoring  Web site  Affinity/networking groups Susan Abramson - Yale University – 12-9-11 7

8. Services & Supports cont’d  Lactation Rooms & Information  Employee Assistance Program  Flexible Spending Accounts  Health and Wellness resource access  Dual Career Assistance Susan Abramson - Yale University – 12-9-118

9. Challenges  Array of policies  Decentralized environment  Lack of commitment  Culture  Prioritization  Data collection/tracking  Time and people Susan Abramson - Yale University – 12-9-119

10. Susan Abramson - Yale University - 10/13/0610 What can you do?  Get involved  Be an advocate  Educate  Benchmark  Find champions  Know the data/know the facts  Partnerships on campus  Become familiar with the application process, timeline and institutional supports for the process.  Be realistic!

11. Resources  Battling To Be The Best: Why Companies Compete for Best-Places-To- Work Lists by Richard Federico. World at Work Press. 2008.  Work Life Law – a center of UC Hastings College of the Law (www.worklifelaw.org)www.worklifelaw.org  Working Mother Best Companies (www.workingmother.com/best- companies)www.workingmother.com/best- companies  The Chronicle of Higher Education – Great Colleges to Work For http://chronicle.com/section/Great-Colleges-to-Work-For/156/ http://chronicle.com/section/Great-Colleges-to-Work-For/156/  College and University Work Family Association (CUWFA) www.cuwfa.org www.cuwfa.org Susan Abramson - Yale University – 12-9-1111

12. Susan Abramson - Yale University – 12—9-1112 Thank you! Susan Abramson Yale WorkLife Program Coordinator 221 Whitney Avenue New Haven, CT 06520 (203) 432-8069 susan.abramson@yale.edu www.yale.edu/worklife