Web Resources for the CCCC Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession - Previous Revision

Family Leave/ Work Life Balance

• AAUP Statement of Principles on Family Responsibilities and Academic Work
• Compare family leave policies at 6 universities
• Compare policies for stopping the tenure clock at 6 universities
• AAUP Resources on Balancing Family and Academic Work
• Mama PhD: Mothers Attempting to Balance Parenthood and Academics
• Parental Leave in Academia: Report of the University of Virginia Family, Gender, and Tenure Project (pdf)

General Professional Issues

• AAUP’s Sources for Women in the Profession: http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/issues/women/ 
• AAUW Scholarships and Awards: http://www.aauw.org/education/fga/ 
• MLA Report on Women in the Profession, 2000: http://www.mla.org/pdf/wip00.pdf 
• ADE Report on the Status of African American Faculty in English, 2007: http://www.ade.org/reports/ADEadhoc_AfricanAmerican.pdf 
• Making Faculty Work Visible: The Report of the MLA Commission on Professional Services: http://www.mla.org/rep_facultyvis 
• Report on the MLA’s 2004 Survey of Hiring Departments (includes statistics broken down by gender and ethnicity): http://www.ade.org/reports/Rpt_2004SHD_ADE_138-39.pdf

Job Security and/or Tenure

• The Family, Gender, and Tenure Project from the University of Virginia: http://www.faculty.virginia.edu/familyandtenure/ 
• AAUW Report: Tenure Denied: Cases of Sex Discrimination in Academia (2004): http://www.aauw.org/research/upload/TenureDenied.pdf 
• “How the Tenure Track Discriminates Against Women,” by Joan C. Williams (2000): http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2000/10/2000102703c.htm 
• “Gender, Contingent Labor, and Writing Studies,” by By Deirdre McMahon and Ann Green (2008): http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2008/ND/Feat/mcma.htm 
• NWSA Journal, Special Issue on Women, Tenure and Promotion (Fall 2007): http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/nwsa_journal/toc/nwsa19.3.html 
• Tenure, Academic Freedom, and the Career I Once Loved, by Annette Kolodny. http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2008/SO/Feat/kolo.htm

Work/Life Balance

• Chronicle of Higher Education Forum on Work/Life Balance: http://chronicle.com/forums/index.php?board=24.0
• National Clearinghouse on Academic Worklife:  http://www.academicworklife.org/
Domestic Partnerships
• AAUP – Legal Resources on Domestic Partnerships: http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/protect/legal/topics/partners.htm
Transgender Issues:
• AAUP Resources on Sexual Diversity & Gender Identity: http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/issues/sexdiv/
• Consortium of Higher Education Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Professionals: http://www.lgbtcampus.org/
• Professor Lynn Conway’s website (includes information and resources for transgender academics): http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/
• Transgender Law and Policy Institute: http://www.transgenderlaw.org/
• National Center for Transgender Equality: http://www.nctequality.org/

LGBT Issues:
• The Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s Report on Campus Climate: http://thetaskforce.org/reports_and_research/campus_climate
• Consortium of Higher Education Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Professionals: http://www.lgbtcampus.org/

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