Abstract
Some scholars and policy makers argue that the dearth of women in academic science positions is related to the demands of family life. While the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) aims to help women and men balance work and family life, universities throughout the United States have adopted family-friendly policies as a means of enabling faculty to balance family life and career. Because universities are somewhat flat organizations, academic departments play a critical role in enabling work-life balance through both formal and informal policies about leave. While family-leave policies are designed to provide job protection for parents and also ensure that faculty can remain successful and productive scholars, it is unclear whether or not formal family-leave policies and informal department cultures have played a positive role on outcomes such as, productivity (e.g. publications), teaching responsibilities, and advancement to leadership positions. This research uses survey responses from 1598 faculty at 150 Carnegie Research Intensive I universities and data from university Status of Women reports and Faculty Handbooks to investigate the relationships between university policies, university level support for work-life balance, and outcomes among men and women faculty in six fields of science.
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