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Balancing Career and Family: Best Practices for PhDs

Learn strategies to navigate career and family life post-PhD, including parental leave, dual career support, and childcare options. Discover how to stay on track professionally while building a family.

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Balancing Career and Family: Best Practices for PhDs

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

  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. 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! LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD - WORKSHOPS IN A BOX A series of workshops for stepping up retention of women in the STEM pipeline. • 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

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

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