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Yale can do more to support graduate families:

• Fully-subsidized healthcare for all dependents. Parental leave with medical insurance and some pay
• More flexibility for parents in time-to-degree requirements
• Clear information on childcare before student's arrival
• Subsidies for high-quality childcare
• Housing subsidies for international student families
• ESL for spouses



Related GESO reports:

• Baby Blue: Parents and Families in Yale Graduate School [.pdf] 10/23/2003

History:

Spring 2006
WGCCY releases report on childcare needs and options for faculty, staff, and students at Yale. Provost Andrew Hamilton announces a specific plan to provide subsidized emergency childcare funding for graduate parents.
Fall 2005
GESO convenes the working group on childcare at Yale (WGCCY) which includes participation from GESO, GSA, GPSS, Local 34, Local 35, Yale postdoctoral fellows, the Women's Faculty Forum, Yale childcare directors, and other members of the Yale community. Yale announces plans to create subsidized back-up daycare services for Yale faculty, students, and staff. GESO solicits more information from graduate students on daycare needs left unanswered by a Yale Bright Horizon survey.
February 2004
 Fewer than two months after the December 2003 civil disobedience, the University announces its plans to hire a daycare consultant to look into day care needs for working parents. A Yale Daily News editorial, reporting the Provost’s announcement, specifically cites the efforts of GESO and Local 34 in pressing for change on this issue.
10 December 2003
 International Human Rights Day Candlelight Vigil and Civil Disobedience with the theme “A Woman’s Place is in her Union.” Over 100 women, primarily from GESO but also from Locals 34 and 35, are arrested in a protest for women’s issues at Yale. Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times columnist and author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America delivers a keynote speech at the rally and participates in the civil disobedience
Fall 2003
 Drawing from its surveys of graduate parents, GESO publishes Baby Blue [.pdf], its report on the lives of graduate parents at Yale.A coalition from GESO, Local 34, and Local 35 delivers a proposal to provide child care at Yale to Yale Corporation Fellow Linda Mason, founder of Bright Horizons Family Solutions and author of a guide for working women on how to balance career and family.
 
Press Articles

• Academia unkind to women with kids
New Haven Register
December 10, 2003
By MARY E. O'LEARY, Register Topics Editor

• GESO, union members rally for benefits
Yale Daily News
December 10, 2003
BY PHILIP RUCKER

• Yale grad students, hospital workers rally for better wages for women
Associated Press
December 10, 2003

• Police arrest more than 100 during protest of Yale's treatment of women
New Haven Register
December 11, 2003
By WILLIAM KAEMPFFER, Register Staff

• Daycare is important community investment
Yale Daily News Editorial
THE NEWS' VIEW
February 6, 2004

• Some Yale grad students forced to use state health plan for kids, report says
New Haven Register
October 23, 2003
By MARY E. O'LEARY, Register Topics Editor

Related Readings

• The Baby Bias
The New York Times
Education Life
August 4, 2002
By HAL COHEN

• Giving Birth in Graduate School
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Monday, July 7, 2003
By ANN STEELE

• How Colleges Can Help Faculty Members With Children
The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Faculty
December 5, 2003
By ROBIN WILSON

• Singing the Grad-School Baby Blues
Chronicle of Higher Education
April 20, 2004
By JOAN C. WILLIAMS

• Easing the Grad-Student Baby Blues
The Chronicle of Higher Education
June 17, 2004
By JOAN C. WILLIAMS