Mary Ann Mason quoted in Inside Higher Education, November 5, 2013
“Colleges and universities do not provide much support for pregnant graduate students,” she says. “Of the 62 members of the Association of American Universities (the top research institutions in the country), only 23 percent guarantee a minimum of six weeks’ paid leave for working postdocs, and only 13 percent promised the same to employed graduate students compared to 58 percent for women faculty. Many universities have no maternity policy at all for graduate students and postdocs who are teaching or working in laboratories.”