Resources

The Best Time to Have a Baby

ASA Research Brief, July 2004

Family Life

The Best Time to Have a Baby: Institutional Resources and Family Strategies among Early Career Sociologists

This research brief investigates resources and strategies concerning this topic presenting the answer that there is no best time, but access to resources help.

Family-Leave Values

This New York Times article discusses topics such as sex discrimination lawsuits under Title VII lawsuits based on stereotypical views of family obligations and the EEOC’s recent guidance on that issue (29 July 2007).

Making Grad School ‘Family Friendly’

Princeton’s efforts to assist graduate students who are parents as part of the continuum of benefits from graduate school to postdoc to faculty lives (4 April 2007).

BLS Reports Decrease in College Enrollment Rates

A short finding showing a decrease in college enrollment rates of high school graduates, most significantly for woman. A link to BLS report is included (30 April 2007).

NSF ADVANCE Informed by Sociological Perspectives and Approaches

Lisa Frehill, Mary Frank Fox, Judity Stepan-Norris, and Jennifer Sheridan give brief sociological perspectives on the ADVANCE program (December 2006).

Harvard Isn’t Enough

Article by Caryn McTighe Musil discussing the hurdles to equity to women in academia including the “Baby Gap” (Spring 2007).

National Clearinghouse on Academic Worklife (NCAW)

http://www.academicworklife.org/

“The National Clearinghouse on Academic Worklife (NCAW) provides resources to help faculty, graduate students, administrators and higher education researchers understand more about all aspects of modern academic work and related career issues, including tenure track and non tenure track appointments, benefits, climate and satisfaction, work/life balance, and policy development.”

Caring for Children: The Parental Guidebook

http://hr.osu.edu/worklife/children.aspx

Ohio State University’s informative guide that provides descriptions of benefits and programs that are available

Virginia Tech: Report on assessment of childcare needs

http://www.advance.vt.edu/Measuring_Progress/Faculty_Survey_2005/Faculty_Survey.htm

National Child Care Information Center

http://www.nccic.org/

The National Child Care Information and Technical Assistance Center (NCCIC), a service of the Child Care Bureau, is a national clearinghouse and technical assistance (TA) center that provides comprehensive child care information resources and TA services to Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Administrators and other key stakeholders.