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Thursday, February 16, 2012

Motherhood 'Detrimental' to Women's Scientific Careers, Study Concludes

Posted by On Lawn
Women with advanced degrees in math-intensive academic fields drop out of fast-track research careers primarily because they want children – not because their performance is devalued or they are shortchanged during interviewing and hiring, according to a new study at Cornell University.
Ideas on how to solve this? What is it that really makes fast-track research incompatible with having children?
 
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  1. "To everything there is a season...."

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    1. Well, people have to do what they have to do.

      I wish there was a more accommodation possible though.

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    2. There is the option to stay on the fast track and adopt children later in life or to adopt older children earlier. Or, howzabout raising children and then climbing onto the fast track. Or marrying a man who takes on the extra load and enables her to remain deeply integrated into the mom-dad-child embrace.

      Trying to have it all is the way of folly. It can appear very complicated because individuals are now expected to reinvent the wheel ... or whatever is the apt mathematical analogy ... to get them from a to b to c to d to on and on. Marriage and other social institutions can provide the framework that we fill-in with some improvised accomodations, I think. Academia was not so disconnected from society ... not so long ago.

      I guess that is my answer but I know it can't satisfy everybody.

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