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
- AAUW Scholarships and Awards
- MLA Report on Women in the Profession, 2000 (pdf)
- ADE Report on the Status of African American Faculty in English, 2007 (pdf)
- Making Faculty Work Visible: The Report of the MLA Commission on Professional Services
- Report on the MLA’s 2004 Survey of Hiring Departments (pdf; includes statistics broken down by gender and ethnicity)
Job Security and/or Tenure
- The Family, Gender, and Tenure Project from the University of Virginia
- AAUW Report: Tenure Denied: Cases of Sex Discrimination in Academia (2004) (pdf)
- “How the Tenure Track Discriminates Against Women,” by Joan C. Williams (2000)
- “Gender, Contingent Labor, and Writing Studies,” by By Deirdre McMahon and Ann Green (2008)
- NWSA Journal, Special Issue on Women, Tenure and Promotion (Fall 2007)
- Tenure, Academic Freedom, and the Career I Once Loved, by Annette Kolodny
Work/Life Balance
- Chronicle of Higher Education Forum on Work/Life Balance
- National Clearinghouse on Academic Worklife
Domestic Partnerships
Transgender Issues
- AAUP Resources on Sexual Diversity & Gender Identity
- Consortium of Higher Education Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Professionals
- Professor Lynn Conway’s website (includes information and resources for transgender academics)
- Transgender Law and Policy Institute
- National Center for Transgender Equality
