Parents Say Women's-Studies Association Provides Inadequate Child Care

Academic women with small children who want to attend the annual meeting of the National Women's Studies Association say they are being shut out by a lack of adequate child care.

Hundreds of women have signed three petitions over the past five years, calling on the organization to provide convenient, safe, and affordable child care -- and to make clear in advance of conference registration what kind of care is available. But the campaign's chief organizer,

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