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1 Do Babies Matter?

2 The Rise of Women PhDs

3 Women PhDs in the Sciences

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

5 SDR

6 Who Gets Tenure?

7 Who Gets Tenure in Science?

8 Men 38% More Likely

9 Single Mothers more successful

10 Second Tier

11 Men with early babies 2

12 Women late babies

13 Pipeline

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

15 Paid Maternity Leave

16 What is the cost of career on family formation?

17 Family Status

18 Getting Divorced

19 Fast-Track Professionals

20 Make or Break Decade: Timing is Everything

21 Baby Lag

22 women one in three women

23 wished they could have had more children

24 Divorce

25 Single 12 Years Out

26 OMG I forgot to have a baby

27 Double Measure

28 What are your next Steps

29 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

30 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

31 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)

32 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

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

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

35 Best Practices MISCELLANEOUS  Adoption expenses  Lactation rooms

36 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

37 # of Children at UCB

38 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.

39 Stay Connected! Send us your comments and feedback at: sanchezn@uchastings.edu Stay tuned for the launch of our website in Summer 2012


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