Rachel mentioned the NY Times article on traveling with a breast  
pump.  Here at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, Dr. Jo  
Handelsman, the chairwoman of the Department of Bacteriology has made  
a real commitment to her employees and graduate students who are  
breastfeeding mothers.  Not only does the new Microbiology  building  
have three lactation rooms (they also double as sleep rooms for those  
monitoring nighttime experiments), but she created a fund called  
"Moms on the Go."  A nursing mother employee from her lab or a grad  
student who needs to go present at or attend a conference out of town  
can apply for a grant to help take her child and a caretaker along.   
That keeps nursing mothers and babies together and allows women in  
the sciences to keep competitive with their male colleagues.  The  
Madison Breastfeeding Promotion Network recognized this department  
with the "Breastfeeding Friendly Employer Award" in October.

I see in her biography (at http://www.hhmi.org/research/professors/ 
handelsman_bio.html    ) that Jo Handelsman served on the panel that  
authored the 2006 National Academy of Sciences report, "Beyond Bias  
and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science  
and Engineering."

Let's encourage other businesses and institutions to follow suit!

Anne Altshuler, RN, MS, IBCLC, LLLL
Madison, WI
dsulman@wisc,edu

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