Graduate School and Family
Graduate school can be especially tough for students with families. These links provide help with juggling the demands of school and family. Other links provide information and advice on dealing with issues such as discrimination, the "glass ceiling", and other difficulties that arise for women and students of color.
Share Your Homework Time with Your Kids
Got kids? Then you probably don't have time. Here are some tips for balancing your home and school lives.
Got kids? Then you probably don't have time. Here are some tips for balancing your home and school lives.
Changing Your Name While In Graduate School
Considering a name change after getting married or divorced? It's a tough decision as your name connotes a whole body of work, a professional identity.
Considering a name change after getting married or divorced? It's a tough decision as your name connotes a whole body of work, a professional identity.
Gender, Work, Stress, and Health
Is academia bad for your health?
Is academia bad for your health?
Studying With Baby
If you've got a baby and you're going to school, this article will help you learn how to cope.
If you've got a baby and you're going to school, this article will help you learn how to cope.
Singing the Grad-School Baby Blues
How do graduate students who have babies fare?
How do graduate students who have babies fare?
Graduate School with a Baby
Useful discussion on the Berkeley Parents Network
Useful discussion on the Berkeley Parents Network
Do Babies Matter?
Academe article on the effect of family formation on the lifelong careers of academic men and women
Academe article on the effect of family formation on the lifelong careers of academic men and women
Giving Birth in Graduate School
A personal account, from the Chronicle of Higher Education
A personal account, from the Chronicle of Higher Education
How Babies Alter Careers for Academics
Big surprise: having babies can bump women from the tenure-track
Big surprise: having babies can bump women from the tenure-track
Accomplished Women
A new cohort of women is moving into the upper ranks of science and urging young women to aim high and prepare.
A new cohort of women is moving into the upper ranks of science and urging young women to aim high and prepare.
A Study on the Status of Women Faculty in Science at MIT
How a Committee on Women Faculty came to be established by the Dean of the School of Science, what the Committee and the Dean learned and accomplished, and recommendations for the future.
How a Committee on Women Faculty came to be established by the Dean of the School of Science, what the Committee and the Dean learned and accomplished, and recommendations for the future.
Parents or Professionals: Do Women Have to Choose?
Discusses the difficulties that women with families face and provides advice for balancing the juggling act.
Discusses the difficulties that women with families face and provides advice for balancing the juggling act.
Barriers to Women in Academic Science and Engineering
Chapter discusses the experiences of women in Ph.D. programs and as faculty members. Emphaizes the conditions that place women at a disadvantage during their doctoral training and early stages of their academic careers.
Chapter discusses the experiences of women in Ph.D. programs and as faculty members. Emphaizes the conditions that place women at a disadvantage during their doctoral training and early stages of their academic careers.
May Babies and PostTenure Babies
Can you have an academic career and a family? Review of Higher Education article on the ways in which professors combine academics and motherhood.
Can you have an academic career and a family? Review of Higher Education article on the ways in which professors combine academics and motherhood.