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Is Tenure Enough?: Reproductive Healthcare And Academic Precarity, Lisa Vandenbossche
Is Tenure Enough?: Reproductive Healthcare And Academic Precarity, Lisa Vandenbossche
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
This piece focuses on insurance and parental leave. While it feels like we know in the abstract that insurance and leave policies are important concerns for faculty members, and employees across all industries, conversations about them by and large taken place in informal settings – through mentorship or personal conversations between friends. In reconstructing these informal information networks, this article seeks to make visible ways that leave policies impact career decisions by women academics. We need to start seeing employee benefits as a reflection of institutional values, to ask about them when considering employment, and to have these conversations with …