UNIVERSITIES PROVIDE EQUAL TREATMENT, WOMEN AND MINORITIES HARDEST HIT: Colleges adopted policies to stop the tenure clock to help professors who are new parents, especially mothers. Study suggests fathers may be the real beneficiaries. “The authors of the new paper speculate that male economists who become fathers are taking the extra year on the tenure track not to nurture their offspring, but to write more articles and to have time to submit them to top journals.”

Having and securing a good job is one of the chief ways men nurture their offspring. It’s sexist to ignore that, and to suggest that there’s only one, female-defined, style of nurturing.