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...interview, Hammonds said the focus on childcare was a response to concerns that surfaced during a survey completed by 244 junior members of Harvard’s faculty this fall. In the survey, junior faculty said that childcare was one of the areas where Harvard’s practices were least effective...
MIT’s Amgen, Inc. Professor of Biology Nancy Hopkins ’64, who has led numerous task forces at MIT that studied and publicized the challenges facing female academics at major universities, said that the survey may be biased towards some concerns among junior faculty and overlook broader problems faced by women at all levels of academia...
...drawing attention to the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, perhaps the world's most neglected humanitarian crisis. Fewer than 2% of the deaths in the conflict are due to violent acts, while almost three-quarters are due to easily preventable infectious diseases and malnutrition. Our survey, which was mentioned in your story, found that when security is assured, death rates plummet. Halting the fighting would allow medical clinics to function, food production to recommence, markets to operate and people to return home from unsanitary refugee camps. The impact on public health is clear: tens of thousands of lives...
...making less than $30,000 a year--are eligible. (Many new paid-leave bills would apply to all businesses.) Among those who could legally go on leave under the federal policy, the vast majority, 78%, said they couldn't afford to take advantage of it, according to a 2000 survey by the Department of Labor...
...drawing attention to the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, perhaps the world's most neglected humanitarian crisis [June 5]. Fewer than 2% of the deaths in the conflict are due to violent acts, while almost three-quarters are due to easily preventable infectious diseases and malnutrition. Our survey, which was mentioned in your story, found that when security is assured, death rates plummet. Halting the fighting would allow medical clinics to function, food production to recommence, markets to operate and people to return home from unsanitary refugee camps. The impact on public health is clear: tens of thousands...