July 23, 1999
Summer Vacation Is Often Maternity Leave When Professors Become Parents
To the Editor:
Why do we single out maternity leave as an "imposition," an "annoyance," an "inconvenience" to colleagues in academe, when all along professors have accommodated one another for other types of leave, including sabbaticals, administrative leaves from teaching, and disability leaves ("Timing Is Everything: Academe's Annual Baby Boom," June 25)? The idea that female faculty members having babies
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