The peculiar burdens experienced by African-American women in academia. The intricacies of child care and parent care. The University of Michigan's Family Care Resources Program, which helps university employees, faculty, and even students care for elderly or disabled parents. The outside commercial sources like the Boston area's Parents in a Pinch, or conference-cosponsor Caregivers on Call, in Lynbrook, N.Y., for emergency backup child care. Chairmen inclined to look in the mirror and see ideal job candidates.
Some women bring a clothing item from the baby to work.
The day may arrive when presidents and provosts run mixers for their single faculty and staff, order free medical treatment in campus health centers for all community members, pay adjuncts what they deserve, even distribute a part of endowment interest to everyone on campus. Or so we can dream. Carlin Romano, critic at large for The Chronicle and literary critic of The Philadelphia Inquirer, teaches philosophy at Temple University.