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HarvardUniversity Harvard University

LOCATION: Cambridge, MA

EMPLOYEES: 17,800

INDUSTRY: Education

FERTILITY BENEFITS:
Normally 6 cycles of IUI and 6 cycles of IVF (or other ART procedures) unless a new cause of infertility is discovered and treated. In that case consideration is given to additional cycles. Unlimited prescription fertility drugs.

ADOPTION BENEFITS:
$5,000 per adoption ($6,000 for special-needs adoption), no lifetime cap.

LEAVE: Different leave policies apply to staff and faculty. Staff: 8 weeks of paid short-term disability for staff birth moms, plus 1 paid week in accrued leave and 1-4 weeks of paid parental leave (70-100%, depending on years of service). Adoptive staff parents receive the same 1-4 weeks of paid parental leave and 1 week in accrued leave. All new staff parents can request unpaid extended leave of up to 1 year (not to exceed length of prior employment). Faculty leave policies differs from school to school at Harvard, but cannot fall below this minimum: Full-time faculty members (primary caregivers) for a new child (birth or adopted) get 1 semester complete teaching relief, or 2 semesters at half teaching load (both options at full pay). Faculty birth and adoptive moms get 8 weeks paid maternity leave and 12 weeks parental leave under FMLA, both of which usually run concurrent with teaching relief, but provide additional relief from other non-teaching duties.

WEBSITE: www.harvard.edu

Families Who Benefited

A few months after her wedding in 1989, then 29-year-old Nancy Ferrari and her husband Greg Gallagher, then 27, tried to start a family. No luck. Seven years of grueling treatments for unexplained infertility followed: Clomid, two IUIs, four cycles of IVF, two cycles of GIFT. Ferrari suffered four miscarriages, two of them from natural pregnancies. Read More

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