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I did a search for 'work-life balance' on this blog, and came up with 174 matching entries. I sifted through all of these, sorted and culled them, found updated links, and organized them into several categories.
Career Profiles
The first set of links comes from the career profiles. These always have a few sections on work-life balance. Easiest is to look them up directly here, and click on the ones that are most relevant. You can also find all of them using tags on the women in astronomy blog, here, including a handful that are not listed on the aas.org site. The 2 questions that I find have the most relevant answers about work-life balance are "How satisfied are you with your work-life balance in your current job? How family-friendly is your current position?", and "How many hours do you work in a week?"
Work Life Balance issues relating to balancing career and raising a family
- When to have kids
Gender Politics -- work-life balance for families including when to have kids
- When pregnant
I’m planning a research sabbatical next year and by the way, we’re expecting a kid -- being pregnant at the same time as being on a research sabbatical
Dear Postdoc Colleague: Yes, the NSF is Serious About Career-Life Balance -- NSF has grants for family leave
NSF's Career-Life Balance Initiative: A Small Success Story -- using the NSF Career-Life Balance initiative to shift a start date
Rising to the Challenge -- personal story of work-life balance (cancer / defense / moving / having a kid)
Parental leave policies 2.0 -- a lot of resources about parental leave listed here
Family Leave - International Comparison -- comparison of family leave policies for various countries
CSWA Special Session at the AAS: Family Leave Policies -- primarily talks about grad and postdoc leave policies
- When you have kids
It Gets Easier -- balancing work-life gets easier as your child gets older
Work-Family: It's Not Always About Balance -- it's possible at times to have work-family in harmony
Postdoc Parenting Work-Life Balance -- discusses childcare (including links to other posts), has information on parental leave as well
Guest Post: Graduate Student Mom -- discusses talking with advisor about pregnancy, plans for childcare, and lessons learned
Guest Post: Eliza Kempton on Support for a Working Mom with Facebook -- it's useful to reach out on facebook when you are feeling overwhelmed - lots of great responses
Work-Life Balance: Theory and Practice -- it's important for senior colleagues to model a balanced life for younger scientists. This one discusses flexibility in childcare.
- Policies for promoting work-life balance (primarily geared towards families)
Balance: a generational divide -- policies for promoting work-life balance, as well as comparisons between different generations of astronomers on views of work-life balance
AASWOMEN for October 29, 2010 -- suggestions for policies for work-life balance and a few links (item #2)
Report from Special Session on Diversity at Austin AAS -- bullet points on how to make a place more family friendly
CSWA Response to the NSF Career-Life Initiative -- CSWA's response to the NSF's request for ideas and recommendations for the Career-Life Initiative
Toward More Inclusive Family-Friendly Policies -- From Jan 2013 STATUS, an article discussing that why we need to stop asking if women can have it all, and ideas for family friendly policies
- How to balance observing with childcare
Guest Post: Eilat Glikman on 'In Praise of Remote Observing' -- remote observing is very work-life balance friendly
The Canary Islands, Observing Runs, and Children -- childcare is a research enabling expense, and we should find ways to reimburse it
Work Life Balance issues that can affect everyone
- things you can do
What Can I Do? Give a Talk on a Women-in-Science Topic -- suggests hosting talks in your department about women-in-science topics
One Man's Perspective on Diversity and Inequality in Science -- the end of the article discusses how work life balance issues affect everyone, including single people and those without children
Work-life Balance: Hours -- protecting your hours, only working 40-50 hours a week
Celebrate Labor Day by Fixing Your Email Problem -- a plan to try to limit the checking and answering of emails during non-work times
The Awesomest 7-Year Post-Doc -- a list of great ideas to set boundaries and enjoy life
Don’t Masculinize the Letter of Recommendation: Towards a Truly Gender-Brave Science Community -- don't mention work-life balance in your recommendation letters, it's a form of gender bias
Encouraging Men to Advocate for Women in Astronomy -- lists a number of reasons why men should advocate for women in astronomy
Guest Post: Nicole Zellner on Vibrant Research at a Liberal Arts College -- Nicole describes how she balances different aspects of her work
Report on “NextGen VOICES Results: Work-Life Balance” -- from Jan 2014 STATUS, article on work-life balance, great suggestions for things you can do.
- more information and links
“What Balance?” Lessons from the AAS Special Work/Life Balance panel, January 11, 2011 in Seattle, WA -- from Jan 2012 STATUS, a list of myths and realities for work-life balance
From AASWomen for March 22, 2013 -- a link to a NYTimes article on a discussion of work-life balance from Erin Callan, former chief financial officer of Lehman Brothers.
WIA 2009 - results? -- women are more negatively impacted than men when they pursue work-life balance
Summit on Gender and the Postdoctorate: vol. 2 -- why do people leave academia? men cite money reasons, not even in top 10 for women
From AASWomen for August 16, 2013, this link -- compares the levels of work-life balance achieved by parents and non-parents
The Post Postdoc Phase -- good work-life balance discussion as a faculty at a 4th tier university
AASWomen Newsletter 10/23/09 has information about http://www.mentornet.net -- this one specifically mentions work-life balance as something to be mentored on
CSWA resource on work-life balance -- it has many links and resources not listed on this blog post
Women of Color in Astronomy and Astrophysics -- there are many barriers for women of color, #9 specifically talk about work-life balance
Reaching Parity: Lessons from the NSF AAPF -- lists major actions that make AAPF successful at achieving parity and which can be adapted by others
Women in Science: Challenges and Opportunities -- discussion about a short video "Women in Science: Challenges and Opportunities", which includes work-life balance
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