The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 13, 2012 by Mary Ann Mason
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Next-Step-for-Female/130717/
A mass of bureaucratic and regulatory blockages must be pushed through in order to achieve a flexible workplace in which having both a family and a career is possible. A critical block is that while federal agencies largely finance the graduate students, postdocs, and faculty members who create new scientific breakthroughs, it is universities that determine personnel issues.