We have very generous leaves for women, because you're absolutely right: When a woman takes a leave, her tenure clock stops. In the university, you have a maximum number of years in most universities, and you go up in your sixth year for this tenure review. When someone is on leave, we stop the clock, so that year doesn't count. Many women and men take more than one leave.
We also try to normalize leave. People takes leaves for all kinds of reasons. It can be for child-rearing. It can be for illness. We remind our colleagues, when someone comes up for tenure, that no, they didn't get eight years, and therefore they should have more publications. They had the same number of years of active career work as everyone else.
Again, it's normalizing how many people take leaves. Yes, women take more, but about 25% or so—that's a rough estimate—of our faculty have taken at least one year of leave and stopped the tenure clock when they went up for tenure. We remind colleagues of that.
That's how we—