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Enabling work? Family-friendly policies and academic productivity for men and women scientists

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  • Mary K Feeney
  • Margarita Bernal
  • Lauren Bowman

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Universities throughout the USA have adopted family-friendly policies to enable life and career balance and to encourage the attraction and retention of women scientists. Although family-leave policies are designed to provide job protection for parents and ensure that faculty can remain productive scholars, it is unclear whether or not formal family-leave policies have played a positive role in areas of academic productivity such as publishing and teaching. This research investigates the relationships between university family-leave policies and productivity among faculty in six fields of science using responses from a national survey of 1,598 faculty at 150 research universities and data from status of women reports and faculty handbooks. The hierarchical multi-level analysis indicates that generous formal family-leave policies, on-site childcare, and spousal hiring policies differently affect the productivity of women and men academic scientists.

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  • Mary K Feeney & Margarita Bernal & Lauren Bowman, 2014. "Enabling work? Family-friendly policies and academic productivity for men and women scientists," Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 41(6), pages 750-764.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:scippl:v:41:y:2014:i:6:p:750-764.
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