“…A variety of family-friendly institutional policies, such as available high-quality childcare services, dual hiring, and the possibility to stop the tenure clock, have been documented to have a positive effect on the retention and promotion of women faculty from assistant to associate professor [11], [45], [46]. Other initiatives, such as half-time tenure, in which faculty with any type of caregiving responsibilities can reduce their load to half in all aspects of tenure, and consequently splitting the value of one year into two [47] have been less widespread, but the potential of such part-time tenure-track (PTTT) positions has been argued to enhance faculty satisfaction, success and retention [48]. Parental leaves and stop-the-clock policies, which aim to decrease the burden of overlapping between the tenure-track and the early stages of childrearing, are available at many institutions.…”