Better maternity leave could help universities retain women – study

Universities that offered their own childcare provision were also found to have more women professors on staff.Better maternity leave could boost British productivity by encouraging qualified women to stay in the workforce, according to researchers who found universities with the most generous maternity leave employed twice the number of women professors compared with those offering the least.Vera Troeger, a professor of economics at Warwick University, said her research found that the universit