“Getting the Ph.D. Was the Easy Part,” Renate Ysseldyk, Inside Higher Education, October 30, 2015, at https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2015/10/30/challenges-women-face-after-getting-their-phds-essay?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=a8edbeae52-DNU201510030&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-a8edbeae52-197618997
[Renate Ysseldyk suggests that women in academia still face significant barriers to career progress, especially shortly following the completion of their doctorates.]
“Sick Days and Flu Outbreaks,” Suprya Kumar, September 16, 2013, Inside Higher Education
http://www.insidehighered.com/audio/ 2013/09/16/sick-days-and-flu-outbreaks
[This 1-minute podcast reports on a study that demonstrates that when workers with the flu take one more sick day before returning to work, flu outbreaks will be less severe.]
“The Mom Penalty,” Colleen Flaherty, June 6, 2013, Inside Higher Education
[This article discusses the book Do Babies Matter: Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower, by Mary Anne Mason, Nicholas Wolfinger, and Marc Goulden. The authors determined that at every stage of an academic career, from graduate school on up, there has been a “baby penalty” that affects women but not their male colleagues.]