Bringing Babies to Work, and Other Reading

Via the Science Careers Blog comes word that some employers are allowing workers to bring their babies to work. In fact, an article in USA Today notes that “The number of companies allowing children at work on an occasional basis climbed to 29 percent last year, up from 22 percent in 2006, according to the Society for Human Resource Management.”
Ever wonder which university presidents earn more than President Bush and the Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper? An article in Macleans has the answer.
Boston’s mayor, Thomas M. Menino, has been nominated as a candidate for the job of chancellor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, The Boston Globe reports.
Via the New York Times Well blog comes word of yet another report showing that women face weight discrimination more often than men do (see a previous blog item). Still more unfair, the new study also found that while even modest weight gain put women at risk of experiencing discrimination, men weren’t affected by such bias unless they were significantly overweight.
Meanwhile, a recent post at the Juggle focuses on a new study by Robin Fretwell Wilson, a law professor at Washington and Lee University, who found that women with M.B.A.‘s are significantly likelier than their male peers to end up divorced or separated. See a post at Feminist Law Professors for more details.