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WFF aims to publicize changes to child leave

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Published Thursday, December 6, 2007
Professors looking to take advantage of their allotted leave to raise young children may currently find the process more confusing than they first anticipated — thanks to what the Women Faculty Forum is calling a “bureaucratic lag.”
#1 By (Anonymous) 9:30am on December 6, 2007

It seems a bit ironic that an institution focused on educating the next generation and helping them find their place as new adults would be so unsupportive of their own staff and faculty's efforts to raise a small part of that generation themselves...

#2 By (Anonymous) 5:32am on December 7, 2007

This is more than a bit of irony. Professors Richards, Hockfield, and Bottomly in addition to numerous leading lights across the arts and sciences who have already departed the Yale faculty have continuously illustrated the Levin administration's incompatibility with mature faculty women working at Yale University. The current activities in the Provost Office subject nascent faculty women to "bureaucratic lag" at a most personal level. Rick Levin's actions do speak louder than Larry Summmers' words.

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