Full pay for nearly five months. I want to cry.https://twitter.com/othersociology/status/870244664774979584 …
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Sick leave also ended up being less flexible than promised and HR implied she couldn't use it in conjunction with parental
What a nightmare!
"Why do we lose women in academic settings?" What a mystery. Just how do they get pushed off the career track? 
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Faculty colleagues seriously told, some yrs ago that reason leave policy was so bad was they should just plan pregnancies for summer break
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This was at my own institution. Policy has since been reformed (of course, had to be spearheaded by a father, not a woman, to get done)
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But previously it was "you can get one course release for a semester but only to defer it to another term and you have to do extra service"
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Which actually meant taking leave = doing MORE work hours overall
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And even getting the course release was at the dean's discretion and not guaranteed
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We have automatic tenure rollback for parental upon birth/adoption of child but many are afraid to take it.
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Female dept head recently told pregnant jr colleague that having a baby was a sign she wasn't dedicated to the tenure track.
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