AWIS Hosted Webinars

Best Practices for Family Friendly Policies

September 17, 2013
Designed for AWIS Institutional Partners 
 (Deans, Department Chairs, HR Departments, Administrators)
Speaker:  Mary Ann Mason

Over the past decade, many universities have taken significant steps to create more family-friendly policies in order to recruit and retain parents. The federal agencies which support science have also begun to introduce family friendly initiatives. This module reviews the most promising policies and invites the participants to examine their own university’s policies.

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It’s Cheaper to Keep Her

October 15, 2013
Target Audience:
  Deans, Department Chairs, HR Departments, Administrators
Speaker:  Joan C. Williams

Designed for deans and department chairs (but available to all AWIS members), this webinar will explain all the ways a department can save money by eliminating a chilly climate and instituting family-friendly policies.  An integral part of that is to avoid the potential for legal liability. There is a new kind of lawsuit that is increasingly filed that presents different risks for universities than they have seen in the past.  Learn about this new risk and get the information you need to avoid that kind of legal liability.

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Some Things are Illegal

November 19, 2013
Target Audience:
  Deans, Department Chairs, HR Departments, Administrators
Speaker:  Joan C. Williams

This training gives a short introduction to a new but rapidly growing area of the law called Family Responsibilities Discrimination that presents very substantial risk management challenges both for department chairs and for university administrators.

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What Works for Women at Work

September 24, 2013
Target Audience:
  Women in STEM, Postdocs & Graduate Students, Deans/Department Chairs
Speaker:  Joan C. Williams

This webinar is designed to give women individual strategies for navigating workplaces that are shaped by implicit bias. What it does is take 34 years of experimental social psychology studies and break them down into four patterns. This module teaches women to recognize the patterns and also offers them very concrete strategies for how to navigate these patterns successfully.

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Do Babies Matter?

December 9, 2013
Target Audience:
 Women in STEM, Postdocs & Graduate Students, Deans/Department Chairs
Speaker:  Mary Ann Mason

This webinar examines when and why women drop out of the academic and scientific pipeline and what can be done to prevent this from happening. Versions of this module are available specifically for women in STEM, and for postdoctoral scholars and graduate students.

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Best Practices for Family Friendly Policies

Tuesday, November 26, 2013 (12:00 PM – 1:00 PM)
Target Audience: Women in STEM, Postdocs & Graduate Students, Deans/Department Chairs
Speaker:  Mary Ann Mason

Over the past decade, many universities have taken significant steps to create more family-friendly policies in order to recruit and retain parents. The federal agencies that support science have also begun to introduce family friendly initiatives. This module reviews the most promising policies and invites the participants to examine their own university’s policies.

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