Women and Children and Work
Thanks to FairerScience friend Carol Muller of MentorNet for letting us know about the Elsevier Foundation's New Scholars Program. Are you ready for this? It gives "priority to the efforts of the academic and research community to address the fundamental challenge of balancing childcare and family responsibilities with the demanding academic careers in science, health and technology" with a "particular emphasis on programs that help with childcare and other family responsibilities when attending scientific gatherings."
Grants range from $5,000-$50,000 annually and doctoral candidates and scientists in the first five years of their post-doctoral careers are their area of focus. Proposals are due Oct 1, 2007 so let's get writing.
And if the news about the Elsevier Foundation's New Scholars Program wasn't enough, the Anita Borg Institute announced today that not only will Grace Hopper Conference offer full-service child care, but that they will be subsidizing "50% of the costs to relieve the financial burden on participants."
Ah it is a good day for women in science and children.