Re: Maternity Leave Stipends?
- From: George Orwell <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 13:08:57 +0100 (CET)
> > Does anyone know the past policy
>
> You're not interested in the _present_ policy?
First, I apologize for the double post. I waited 24 hrs for the first to appear
but it didn't. Then, I am interested in the present policy because I've been
reading more about it lately. Harvard and a few other places are, apparently,
changing their policies ... but I always assumed that the students I knew of
(in the past) could not have survived without their stipends and were
receiving them, either by law or the generosity of their PI or departments.
I NEVER heard stories, 1st, 2nd or >2nd hand, of grad student moms
complaining about NOT getting paid or losing stipends or benefits.
> Have you asked anyone where you have been before (surely you knew
> some people, still have some contacts social/academic?)?
It's a touchy subject that I don't raise but a bit relevant to discussions in s.r.c..
I can think of only a very small number of US citizen colleagues who
could afford to start a family while in grad school. All were wealthy or
well off.
On the other hand, I have dozens of alien colleagues who were able to do
so. The vast majority of them had their parents come from overseas to
take care of the new baby when the student returned to school. (Typically,
one set of gradparents would come over for 6 months, then the other set.)
In several cases, the baby was sent back to the homeland to be raised by
the grandparents for a few years. (This was/is common within some
countries, such as PRChina, so this is just the international version of that.)
But now I'm drifting off topic.
I was just wondering what those of you here in s.r.c might know from
official, personal, or 2nd hand experience about past policies.
Happy New Year!
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