Astronomy
- Cswa Special Session At The Aas: Family Leave Policies
At the 221st AAS meeting at Long Beach, CA, the CSWA sponsored a special session entitled, "Family Leave Policies and Childcare for Graduate Students and Postdocs." The principal organizers were CSWA members Dave Charbonneau and Laura Trouille....
- Aaswomen For September 21, 2012
AAS Committee on the Status of Women Issue of September 21, 2012 eds. Caroline Simpson, Michele Montgomery, Daryl Haggard, and Nick Murphy This week's issues: 1. Parental Leave Wiki on AstroBetter2. The Name Game3. The Subtle `Stereotype Threat'...
- Paid Parental Leave For Graduate Students
For my first post to the Women in Astronomy Blog, I would like to describe some activities that the Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy is undertaking with regard to parental leave policies for graduate students. When I joined the CSWA last...
- Petition, Please Sign, Family Leave Policies For Astronomers
In the interest of fully supporting the intellectual efforts of astronomy graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, we* have created a petition to encourage the establishment of family leave policies by Astronomy Departments and Fellowship Committees....
- Parental Leave Policies
The website AstroBetter has kindly agreed to host a wiki on parental leave policies for different astronomical institutions and for the national postdoctoral fellowships at the following site: http://www.astrobetter.com/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Leave+Policies...
Astronomy
Parental Leave Wiki on AstroBetter
This week's guest blogger is Nick Murphy. Nick Murphy is an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. His research is on solar physics, including the role of magnetic reconnection in solar eruptions. He is active in several community groups in the Boston area that are working for gender equity and racial justice.
Last year, our colleagues at AstroBetter provided wiki space to catalog parental leave policies at astronomical institutions:
http://www.astrobetter.com/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Leave+Policies
The goals of this wiki are: (1) to allow astronomers at different career stages to easily compare parental leave policies, and (2) to encourage institutions to enact better parental leave policies by showing how they compare with peer institutions.
At this point there are postings for 23 institutions and fellowships in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. We encourage you to post information about your own institution if it is not included. If your institution lacks a comprehensive parental leave policy or only has unpaid leave, it is important to post anyway so that prospective graduate students and employees know this and the administation can be encouraged to implement something better. If your institution has a parental leave policy worth being proud of, post so that more people want to go there!
Last year, our colleagues at AstroBetter provided wiki space to catalog parental leave policies at astronomical institutions:
http://www.astrobetter.com/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Leave+Policies
The goals of this wiki are: (1) to allow astronomers at different career stages to easily compare parental leave policies, and (2) to encourage institutions to enact better parental leave policies by showing how they compare with peer institutions.
At this point there are postings for 23 institutions and fellowships in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. We encourage you to post information about your own institution if it is not included. If your institution lacks a comprehensive parental leave policy or only has unpaid leave, it is important to post anyway so that prospective graduate students and employees know this and the administation can be encouraged to implement something better. If your institution has a parental leave policy worth being proud of, post so that more people want to go there!
We especially encourage institutions outside of the US to be included, in part to show how the US measures up internationally. With your help, we can make this an even better resource for the members of our community who are applying to graduate school, postdocs, and permanent positions.
To read more about parental leave, see previous blog posts on the upcoming winter AAS CSWA Special Session on paid parental leave policies for grad students and postdocs in the U.S., a petition for improved parental leave policies, the CSWA response to the NSF Career-Life Initiative, and how US parental leave policies compare internationally.
Posted by L. Trouille
- Cswa Special Session At The Aas: Family Leave Policies
At the 221st AAS meeting at Long Beach, CA, the CSWA sponsored a special session entitled, "Family Leave Policies and Childcare for Graduate Students and Postdocs." The principal organizers were CSWA members Dave Charbonneau and Laura Trouille....
- Aaswomen For September 21, 2012
AAS Committee on the Status of Women Issue of September 21, 2012 eds. Caroline Simpson, Michele Montgomery, Daryl Haggard, and Nick Murphy This week's issues: 1. Parental Leave Wiki on AstroBetter2. The Name Game3. The Subtle `Stereotype Threat'...
- Paid Parental Leave For Graduate Students
For my first post to the Women in Astronomy Blog, I would like to describe some activities that the Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy is undertaking with regard to parental leave policies for graduate students. When I joined the CSWA last...
- Petition, Please Sign, Family Leave Policies For Astronomers
In the interest of fully supporting the intellectual efforts of astronomy graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, we* have created a petition to encourage the establishment of family leave policies by Astronomy Departments and Fellowship Committees....
- Parental Leave Policies
The website AstroBetter has kindly agreed to host a wiki on parental leave policies for different astronomical institutions and for the national postdoctoral fellowships at the following site: http://www.astrobetter.com/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Leave+Policies...