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Do babies matter? Of course!(Newswatch)(Brief Article)
In 2001, Dr. Mary Ann Mason, dean of the graduate division of the University of California at Berkeley, presented research showing that having a baby significantly decreased a female academic's chances of getting tenure and a top salary. (WIHE in January 2002.) She studied federal government data on 160,000 people who earned doctorates between 1978 and 1984 and stayed in academe.
Her results will not surprise academic women whose careers have been set back by becoming parents.
In May, Mason got a $420,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to help schools make the tenure track more compatible with parenthood. Working with researchers and professors, she is trying to persuade University of ...
- A HALF-TIME TENURE TRACK PROPOSAL.
- Magazine article from: Change DRAGO, ROBERT WILLIAMS, JOAN November 1, 2000 700+ words
...years coincided with the tenure-track years. In Unbending Gender...do the vast majority of child care, will not achieve equality...boils down to a part-time tenure track. What is a halftime tenure track? Model language is provided...
- Diversity deficit; National ACES program aims to add tenure-track female...
- Magazine article from: Crain's Cleveland Business Kadleck, Chrissy January 3, 2005 700+ words
...million ACES grant. Its goal is to increase the number of tenure-track women teaching in the sciences and engineering and to eliminate...family-friendly policies. For example, we are developing a child care facility on campus, and we have changed the policy on partner...
- Bright Horizons Opens New Child Care Center at NC State University.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 11, 2008 700+ words
...their staff with a high-quality child care facility within the campus community...Excellence: Creating Flexibility in Tenure-Track Faculty Careers, married women...indicate because of issues with child care. This same study revealed that...
- UPI Sees IBHE Report On Part-Time, Non-Tenure Track Faculty as Flawed.
- Press release article from: Business Wire April 1, 2002 700+ words
...abuse of part-time and other non-tenure track faculty employed by the state's public...reliance on part-time and non-tenure-track faculty." The resolution also directed...minimas, indexing them to full-time, tenure track faculty salary and benefits. "While...
- California universities recruiting tenure-track professors.(Knight Ridder...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Koury, Renee September 23, 2002 700+ words
...universities is growing, but the roster of tenure-track professors is not. For students, that...hiring a mix of adjunct instructors and tenure-track professors. But the percentage of non...part because it costs schools less. Tenure-track faculty members get higher salaries...
- California universities recruiting tenure-track professors.
- Newspaper article from: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, Calif.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) September 15, 2002 700+ words
...universities is growing, but the roster of tenure-track professors is not. For students, that...hiring a mix of adjunct instructors and tenure-track professors. But the percentage of non...part because it costs schools less. Tenure-track faculty members get higher salaries...
- Instructors seeking tenure track.
- Newspaper article from: Morning Call (Allentown, PA) May 7, 2007 700+ words
...Because temporary faculty are not on the tenure track, they have little to no job security...year. Meanwhile, there are 188 fewer tenure-track positions. "We've created a revolving...Union leaders say that students and tenure-track faculty are being shortchanged by the...
- Perspectives on tenure: tenured versus nontenured tenure-track...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Education for Business Premeaux, Shane R. Mondy, R. Wayne July 1, 2002 700+ words
...issues. Both tenured and nontenured tenure-track university professors at business schools...significantly between tenured and non-tenured tenure-track faculty members...members as opposed to placing faculty in a tenure-track position (McGinn & Blake, 2000...
