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Still, Goltz says, "I'm glad I had my child when I did." She says she's heard from other women who waited until after tenure to have children, and then were unable to conceive. "They were just really, really upset. Seeing those difficulties, I'm glad I did it the way I did," she says. "And it really brought home how aw... |
Since Goltz's experience, more and more universities have adopted these family-friendly policies. Since such policies were first introduced at colleges and universities around the country over 40 years ago, more than 90 percent of research institutions now offer such a policy. It has become the gold standard in work-fa... |
Catherine Hill, director of research at the American Association of University Women, says the policy is necessary to make colleges and universities an equitable hiring environment. "If the tenure clock happened at 50, you wouldn't see a gender disparity," Hill explains, saying that because the crunch for tenure occurs... |
In fact, new research shows that those who use stop-the-tenure-clock (STC) policies for family reasons do pay a very literal price—a new study published in the Industrial and Labor Relations Review found that "faculty members who use STC policies for family reasons receive a wage penalty following use that cannot be ex... |
"[W]e find evidence that use of STC policies for family reasons is viewed as a signal that the faculty member lacks the commitment necessary to succeed in academia, and thus they are evaluated as less productive and less deserving of salary increases," the authors conclude. |
The conclusions of the study didn't surprise AAUW's Hill at all. "Mothers tend to earn less across the board. There are a lot of presumptions around mothers in a way that they don't have around fathers," she says. |
Goltz, now a full professor at Michigan Technological University who helps evaluate others' tenure applications, admits she has mixed feelings about "stop the tenure clock" policies. "I feel conflicted about this policy," she says, explaining that sometimes she sees male faculty members use it even though he might have... |
But Colleen Flaherty Manchester, the lead author on the paper, said this negatively affected both men and women who used STC policies, it's just that men tend to use these policies much less than women do. |
Manchester said that the best way to view these findings is that this signals a greater need for transparency and accountability when it comes to salary decisions—and that academics should use such polices more, not less. |
"I think the more people [who] use the policy the more normative it is," Manchester says. "What we're picking up here similar phenomenon goes on in other professions." |
She says that this reinforces the idea that while this is a phenomenon that impacts academics, it actually demonstrates that family-friendly policies are extremely important in all professions. |
The same authors published similar research last July in the Academy of Management Journal that found flexible work policies such as telecommuting were applied unevenly. Parents who telecommuted were viewed as less committed than their colleagues who came into the office. On the other hand, non-parents who telecommuted... |
The research on how family-friendly policies affect parents points to the fact that, even when such policies are in place, those who bear the brunt of childcare responsibilities—thus far mostly women—pay a real price. Even when parents manage to achieve greater flexibility in the workforce, their colleagues and manager... |
But pushing for that change is challenging. As AAUW's Hill points out, "It is a tough problem because you're dealing with deep-rooted social stereotypes. This view of mothers of geniuses is not something we put together in our minds. That's not the case. You can be a productive scholar and be a parent." |
Kay Steiger is the managing editor of Raw Story. |
She's an artist, you just wouldn't understand. |
A little girl shared her artistic interpretation of some chalk giraffes with her father recently, a warm welcome to anyone who found themselves on the family's front steps. |
Now, some may say that these giraffes sort of look like penises, but this innocent little girl explains that these are simply normal animals without belly buttons. |
My daughter and I are still reeling after seeing Ruben Ostlund’s The Square at Dundee Contemporary Arts on Tuesday night. It can be hard to talk a teenager into a film with subtitles – has been my experience, at least – but Millie was on for it, having had many a mind-expanding experience in the velvety, comfy environm... |
The Square is all about the unexpected, the terrifying, the funny. Ostlund is interested in maleness, in what it is to be a man who feels he has to be in charge of things, and yet isn’t. Who, when pushed, is frightened, actually, and uncertain and full of self doubt. His first film Force Majeure – about a terrific dad ... |
All of this is Muriel Spark territory, of course. Her novels have the same qualities of violence and uncertainty, strangeness; they unsettle us. She too had a searing sense of humour and could see the comedy in human frailty – in our snobbishness and inflated self-regard and delight in our paltry sucessess. “The art an... |
Millie and I talked about that, after the film, the way humour makes us keep on thinking about things – instead of having the easy way out that you get with a more straightforward story that has you empathising like mad but actually coming away from the whole experience absolutely unchanged in your prejudices and point... |
Graham Domke, the exhibitions curator and art writer with connections and influence that are both local and international, knows about “those things” – and some. All his professional life he has challenged how we experience culture by mounting some of the most exciting shows of contemporary art Scotland has seen. He’s ... |
As a first creative use for an old building, the exhibition will comprise work by seven artists, including the Black Isle painter and colourist Katy Dove, who died in 2015 and whose work Graham has championed for over a decade. So she must be there, in the “Chamber”, alongside the groovy light and image installations, ... |
He told me all this as we had camomile tea in Tonic – the terrific bar and cafe in Dundee’s Nethergate where we have our “Writers Read” literary events through the year. We talked Keats to each other – “Chamber of Maiden Thought” is a line from one of his letters, the poet describing our minds as though they were a man... |
Graham is one of the cleverest people I know. I’ve learned so much from him about contemporary art and how it might affect us, what it might … do. That it’s not about it being famous or hanging up on a wall after being prepped with a sales kit and press package. Rather it’s about it giving us another kind of experience... |
“Laughing their asses off,” though a common phrase, took its place in the political vernacular when President Donald Trump used it to describe Moscow’s reaction to U.S. investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Trump didn’t say if this assertion was based on personal knowledge, or information and b... |
Despite the bemused façade of Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, and Vladimir Putin, himself, when speaking about electoral interference, Russia is worried about present, and future sanctions. This concern is one reason why Russian bots are furiously gearing up for the midterm elections and continue to provoke th... |
On April 21, 2015, CNN Money reported, “Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev gave the first official estimate of the [sanctions] cost in a speech Tuesday.” Medvedev said the decision to annex Crimea had sparked a crisis that turned out to be "more difficult than even the most pessimistic expectations.” The dire situa... |
Medvedev estimated a cost to Russia of $26.7 billion in 2014 which, he said, could balloon to $80 billion in 2015. Trade with Western countries, also, plummeted, along with the ruble, and the personal nature of some sanctions hit the oligarch class, which is composed of Putin retainers, particularly hard. Russia’s misa... |
For Trump, there wasn’t much to fear from Russia, hence, Mike Flynn’s mission to the country, Don Jr.’s contacts, and Jared Kushner’s lame attempt to run a secret back-channel to Moscow, out of the Russian embassy in Washington where, he thought, U.S. intelligence couldn’t see what was happening. Though Vladimir Putin ... |
The geopolitical reality is that Moscow desperately wanted help in ending what it felt was American interference in the affairs of a former Soviet satellite. The expansion of NATO, into areas that not long ago were under the sway of Russia, represented an impermissible economic and political encroachment to Moscow. Mos... |
A detailed review of all of the Otago Regional Council’s lake and river water quality monitoring network has recommended changes be made to ORC practices, including in its three major alpine lakes. |
The ORC commissioned Niwa to conduct the review last year to future-proof the programmes so they were fit for purpose in terms of the site network, monitoring variables and technology. |
ORC resource science manager Dean Olsen said "part of the drive behind getting the report done was it was good to review practices from time to time, and another was because the 2017 amended National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management has established expectations from central government about local government w... |
The ORC monitors water in nine lakes, including Wakatipu, Wanaka and Hawea. |
The Niwa report recognised there were resourcing and logistical constraints on monitoring programmes that had led to the current mix of outlet and on-lake monitoring sites. |
The on-lake monitoring of the alpine lakes had been monthly for two or three years, every 10 years. |
The report said: "In light of their very high regional (and national) values, and potential for change in condition, ongoing monthly sampling of open water sites on Lakes Wakatipu, Wanaka and Hawea is highly recommended." |
The report also recommended deploying an automated monitoring buoy in each of those lakes. |
Buoys with fixed sensor strings can record measurements down to the lakes’ maximum depths (maximum depth 384m) 24 hours a day, seven days a week all year round. |
Dr Olsen said the ORC was already one year into a three-year monthly monitoring programme of the three largest and deepest lakes. |
"We have now extended that out so that it is a perpetual part of our programme, as well as quarterly sampling of some of our shallower lakes." |
He said the ORC had budgeted for deploying buoys in the 2018-28 Long Term Plan but Niwa had made it "quite clear" buoys were useful but did not replace a boat sampling programme, and "the greatest urgency was to establish that". |
Dr Olsen said the ORC had taken all Niwa’s recommendations on board, had moved into discussions about funding and would shortly be taking a paper to the council that will outline the work. |
The world should brace for a possible war over the Iranian nuclear issue, French FM Kouchner said on Sunday. |
The world should brace for a possible war over the Iranian nuclear issue but seeking a solution through talks should take priority, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said on Sunday. |
"We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war," he said in an interview broadcast on French television and radio. |
"We must negotiate right to the end," with Iran, he said, but claimed that if Tehran possessed an atomic weapon, it would represent "a real danger for the whole world." |
Calling the nuclear standoff "the greatest crisis" of present times, the minister said: "We will not accept that the bomb is manufactured," and hinted that military plans were on the way. |
"We are trying to put in place plans which are the privilege of chiefs of staff and that is not for tomorrow," he said but stressed that although any attack on Iran was far from taking place, "It is normal for us to plan" for any eventuality. |
In Washington, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates took a more muted approach on Sunday. |
"I will tell you that I think the administration believes at this point that continuing to try and deal with the Iranian "threat" ... through diplomatic and economic means is by far the preferable approach," he said. |
Kouchner meanwhile said France wanted the European Union to prepare sanctions against Iran, outside the ambit of the UN Security Council, to force Tehran to forsake its nuclear ambitions. |
"We have decided that while negotiations are continuing ... to prepare eventual sanctions outside the ambit of UN sanctions. Our good friends, the Germans, suggested that," he said. |
The foreign minister also said leading French companies such as Total and Gaz de France had been urged not to undertake new work or contracts in Iran. |
Tehran vehemently denies Western allegations it is seeking an atomic weapon, saying its nuclear drive is aimed at providing electricity for a growing population whose fossil fuels will one day run out. |
The five permanent Security Council members -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States -- plus Germany are due to meet to discuss a new draft UN resolution on sanctions against Iran on September 21 in Washington. |
In the free-wheeling interview, Kouchner also touched upon the criteria for new members aspiring to join the European Union such as Turkey, saying French President Nicolas Sarkozy favoured the scrapping of a mandatory referendum on future adhesions. |
"I do not fear revealing this secret. I think the president wants this as well," he said. |
France has put the brakes on Turkey's membership talks but Sarkozy has said he would not block the discussions if a group of "wise men" was established by 2009 to debate the goals and ambitions of the EU over the next two decades. |
Here in suburban Surrey it is already the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. The damson tree in our front garden is so weighed down with fruit that the branches almost reach the ground, as if it were impersonating a weeping willow, and my dear old mum has made two jars of delicious jam, with the promise of many m... |
When one thinks of Tim Rice, one doesn’t exactly picture a man who has had a tremendous struggle to make it to the top. |
It’s the small things that drive you mad. |
the good books, the good bed. |
It seems to me that society can now be divided into three different types of people on principles that have nothing to do with class, wealth or status, and everything to do with one’s ease — or lack of it — with modern technology. |
The drugs don’t work sung the Verve on one of their best songs, and I’m feeling the same myself at the moment. |
I was in New York the other week, furtively sneaking into a preview of the doomed new Spider-Man musical, which features music from Bono and The Edge of U2. |
I have long believed that a part of you dies in winter and doesn’t come back to life until you feel the sun on your face and a mid-westerly breeze in the air. |
Sitting on my desk as I write are two objects of wonder and delight. |
The extraordinary thing about rock’n’roll is its longevity. |
Three months ago I wrote here about my chronic Amazon habit, in which I recklessly buy books, DVDs and CDs I will never have time to read, watch or listen to. It has been costing me as much as drink did when I was still a practising alcoholic. |
Last month, when unveiling my all-time top ten favourite albums, I predicted that the list would probably have changed by the autumn. |
Regular readers may have noticed an embarrassing lacuna in this column. |
As was so often the case with Bertie Wooster when he faced an interview with his fearsome Aunt Agatha, I feel a sense of impending doom as I write this on a beautiful morning in late June. |
By and large, I try to keep the night job out of this column. |
That splendid old bruiser Michael Henderson, no stranger to Spectator readers, and as passionate about music and poetry as he is about cricket, has, as so often, a bee buzzing in his bonnet. |
One of the Labor Party's most powerful people is fighting for his parliamentary life. |
Attorney General and Health Minister Jim McGinty might have to rely on Liberal preferences to win his seat of Fremantle. |
With about half the vote counted, Greens candidate Adele Carles is running second with 30 per cent of the primary vote, ahead of the Liberals' Brian Christie and behind Mr McGinty, who has 39 per cent. |
If Ms Carles takes second place on the primary vote, Mr Christie's preferences will be vital. As the vote stands at the moment, she would need about 80 per cent of those. |
Mr McGinty had a 14.2 per cent margin in Fremantle, but there was always likely to be a substantial Greens vote in the electorate. |
Detroit sports are in pretty bad shape at the moment. |
Yeah, we have the Detroit Lions, who are still hanging around in the NFC playoff race. But, as Dave Birkett explained earlier this week, their odds of making the playoffs aren't great. The Detroit Tigers might be the worst team in baseball. The Detroit Pistons may look destined for a playoff spot, but the Boston Celtic... |
The nice thing about sports, though, is as an escape from reality for most viewers, we can have fun in misery — heck, Lions fans have been doing it for 60 years. |
That's where John Dingell comes in. |
The 91-year-old former U.S. Representative is notorious these days for his hilarious Twitter account and, though he tweets mostly about President Donald Trump and politics in general, he dabbles in Detroit sports. |
Looking over his best tweets from 2017, he encapsulates what Detroit sports fans went through this past year with all four sports teams. |
In hindsight, I have no earthly idea why I stayed up for that game. |
Great to see a @tigers line score that nearly adds up to my age. I'll take it. |
God bless the Detroit Lions. |
I have absolutely no idea what is happening in this @Lions game. |
I’m thankful for family, friends, and the reliably crushing feeling of defeat that comes with being a Lions fan. |
The Pistons drafted an Ohio kid who went to Duke. I'll try to be happy. |
.... Oh wait, he didn't. |
Take from that what you will about the relevance of the Red Wings right now. |
Between the score of this Lions game and the news of @JUST_JUP's departure, I think I may be better off just going to sleep right now. |
Scratch that. Ohio State is losing. I'm revived. |
Duke-Michigan State games are always stressful because one of them ends up winning. |
What in the world was that throw? |
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