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Recent articles in the news Sex, Lies and Title IX (May 15, 2006) Links to General Documents Women in Science Federal Inquiry on Women in Science (Inside Higher Ed, March 28, 2006) More Women in Science (Science Magazine, August 2005) Is there a bias for or against women in academia? Do Babies Matter? Part I: The Effect of Family Formation on the Lifelong Careers of Academic Men and Women Part II: Closing the Baby Gap University Reports, Committees and Policies University of California, Faculty Family Edge, An Initiative for Tenure-Track Faculty at the University of California U of T listed among top 10 family-friendly employers Report of the Task Force on the Status of Women Faculty in the Natural Sciences and Engineering at Princeton A delicate balance: women in academia (University of Alberta) Women Faculty - Yale University Harvard Furor Lingers as Harvard Chief Gives Details of Talk on Women Harvard University announces Task Forces on Women Faculty and Women in Science and Engineering Women want more room at the top of the academic pile (Concordia, 2004) New Faculty and Mentoring Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty: (All chapters of this document) (Ch 5 only - Mentoring and Being Mentored) The Academy as Community: A Manual of Best Practices for Meeting the Needs of New Scholars AAHE: Supporting Early-Career Faculty: Guidance for Deans, Department Chairs, and Other Academic Leaders MentorNet: The E-Mentoring Network for Women in Engineering and Science Relevant articles from the Chronicle of Higher Education Note that some of these articles can only be accessed from a McGill IP address or using a McGill VPN. How the Tenure Track Discriminates Against Women (2000) For Women With Tenure and Families, Moving Up the Ranks is Challenging (2001) Professors Can Be Parents, Too (2002) Family Time: Why Some Women Quit Their Coveted Tenure-Track Jobs (2003) Where the Elite Teach, It's Still a Man's World (2004) Gender Inequality in Academe (2005) Example Policies for leave and workload relief Princeton CAUT: Model Clause on Pregnancy and Parental Leave Concordia's award-winning parental leave policy Associations and Councils AAUP: Statement of Principles on Family Responsibilities and Academic Work NCRW: Balancing the Equation CAUT: Women in the Academic Work Force (March 2006) Canadiana Canadian Chronology Complaint to Canadian Human Rights Commission on CRC program Women make inroads in Canada - Universities beginning to address gender imbalance in national research chairs program Ivory Towers: Feminist Audits: Selected Indicators of the Status of Women in Universities in Canada and Further Equity Data, 2004 Study: The rising profile of women academics Links to Relevant McGill Documents The Grey Book - Handbook of Regulations and Policies for Academic and Librarian Staff Student registration statistics - 2004 Where have all the boys gone? Minutes of a meeting of Senate, Wednesday, October 27, 2004 (see question and answer wrt Availablity of Daycare Facilities McGill's Strategic Research Plan for CRC chairs (note the section entitled "Gender Representation") Computer Science Recruitment and Retention of Women Graduate Students in Computer Science and Engineering

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