Workshops Catalog
Building a Department in an Era of Tight
Budgets: It’s Cheaper to Keep Her
The Competitive Edge:
Best Practices for Family Friendly Policies
Do Babies Matter? (STEM focus)
Do Babies Matter? (postdocs focus)
Do Babies Matter? (general focus)
Double Jeopardy?: How Gender Bias Differs
By Race
Some Things Are Illegal
Title IX and Pregnancy Discrimination
What Works for Women at Work
Some Things Are Illegal
This workshop gives a short introduction to three developments that may make universities more vulnerable to lawsuits than they have traditionally been. The first is a new but rapidly growing area of the law called Family Responsibilities Discrimination. Title IX compliance is the second; it prohibits pregnancy discrimination and may require maternity leave for students, graduate students and postdocs. The workshop also provides an introduction to the kinds of gender stereotyping that can give rise to difficulties in the event of a lawsuit.