Resources on Work/Family Issues (provided by Jan Nolan)
Faculty Organizations
CAUT Women’s Issues and Campaigns
Selected American Initiatives Regarding Faculty Work/Life
An Agenda for Excellence: Creating Flexibility in Tenure Track Faculty Careers
Faculty Careers and Flexible Employment
David Leslie has linked his research on phased retirement to a broader analysis of the need for flexible career paths for both junior and senior faculty. This paper can be found here.
University of Washington (Sloan Foundation Funded) Family Friendly Policies for Faculty Members
Selected Canadian Government Websites and Research
Government of Canada: Work Life Balance in Canadian Workplaces
WorkLife BC’s model for getting started on work/life issues in the private sector
Work-Life Balance in Canada: Making the Case for Change by Linda Duxbury and Chris Higgins
Selected Work/Life and Work/Family Offices in Universities
Examples From Other Workplaces
Who’s Cuddly Now? Changes that law firms are making to enhance work/life balance
CIBC Back Up Child Care Program
Other References on Work/Family Issues
Bhattacharjee, Yudhijit. ostdoc Survey Finds Gender Split on Family Issues. Science Vol. 318 9 November 2007. 28 January 2008 http://sciencemag.org.
Bischoping, Kathy. The Best You Can Expect When You Are Expecting and Beyond:A Review of Contract Language for Mothers in the Canadian Academy. Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering Vol. 5. No. 2. (Fall/Winter 2003): 77-86.
Carr, Phyllis L., MD, et al. elation of Family Responsibilities and Gender to the Productivity and Career Satisfaction of Medical Faculty. Annals of Internal Medicine Vol. 129. Issue 7 (1 October 1998): 532-38. 28 January 2008http://annals.highwire.org.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/cgi/content/full/129/7/532.
Castle, Joyce B. and Vera Woloshyn. otherhood and Academia: Learning from Our Lived Experience. Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering Vol. 5. No. 2. (Fall/Winter 2003): 35-46.
Fothergill, Alice and Kathryn Feltey. I Worked Hard and Slept Very Little Mothers on the Tenure Track in Academia.Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering Vol. 5. No. 2. (Fall/Winter 2003): 7-19.
Mason, Mary Ann and Marc Goulden. Marriage and Baby Blues: Redefining Gender Equity in the Academy. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (November 2004): 86-103. 28 January 2008http://ann.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/596/1/86.
Panofsky, Ruth. Professor/Mother: The Uneasy Partnership. Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering Vol. 5. No. 2. (Fall/Winter 2003):103-111.
Perna, Laura W. The Relationship between Family Responsibilities and Employment Status among College and University Faculty. The Journal of Higher Education Vol. 72, No. 5. (Sep.-Oct., 2001): 584-611. 28 January 2008-01-28
