Word: workweek
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Starting this fall, Harvard College Libraries (HCL) will undertake a two-year pilot program to keep Lamont Library open 24 hours a day during the academic workweek, Larsen Librarian of Harvard College Nancy M. Cline told The Crimson earlier today...
...findings of the study also run counter to Summers’ contention that the primary reason for the relatively small number of women in academic positions in the sciences is due to conscious choice, as a result of the conflict between the long workweek of tenure-seeking professors and the desire for child-rearing...
...effect, if not in intent, our administration seems to have presided over just this kind of exclusionary policy, whether through the expectation of an 80-hour workweek without providing adequate childcare or through the public humiliation of distinguished professors...
Summers said last night he agrees that the 80-hour workweek for academic scientists is “a social convention” and “that it clearly has the effect of favoring men.” He said he hoped his comments would prompt researchers to consider ways to make academic careers more compatible with family life...
Early in his talk Friday, Summers noted that many women with young children are unwilling or unable to put in the 80-hour workweek needed to attain tenure status on elite faculties...