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I am in the unusual position of being a tenured female economics professor with four children. I had my first baby three years after completing my PhD, the next a few years later, the third during the year of my tenure decision, and the fourth two years after that. As a result I developed a personal interest in pregnancy discrimination and began to study work/family policies in higher education. Here is what I have learned.
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Prior to the late 1970s, more than 90% of full-time faculty members in the United States were men, who had negotiated for benefits and work environments to shape the workplace to meet their needs. The husbands ...