Summers, Women, Families, and CST

I read that one of Lawrence Summers's Harvard legacies will be improved institutional support of women and, lo if indirectly, their families.  Harvard will be shelling out lots more for child care.  Lisa Schiltz's forthcoming paper on where CST may lead on these questions, as they concern law faculties, is a must-read for those who care about where the Church's teachings invite in terms of the administration of her own institutions.  Paying for child care entails trade offs, of course, and there are, of course, various other reasons that may militate in favor of leaving child care costs where they now lie.  Nor do I suggest that Summers et al. are making a comprehensive moral statment.  My guess is that they're after exactly the material conditions that will lead to something like numerical equality as between the sexes on the tenured or, proximately, tenure-track faculty.  Still, the message from Harvard that child care is to be taken seriously by educational communities committed to the good(s) of their members should reverberate.