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PI: "You put your kid in front of the TV for 2 hours a day to get stuff done? That's terrible parenting."
PI: "You will be late 1 day for a meaningless group presentation to your own lab, because your child is sick and can't go to daycare? Get your priorities straight."
While the title focuses on female scientists, males are also affected. From the article: "...23% of men and 43% of women who had become parents had left full-time STEM employment. ... This compared to 16% of child-free men and 24% of child-free women."
So basically, post-doctoral STEM employment punishes taking the hours to parent, like so many other professional positions these days.
Members of a sexually reproducing species find that their instinctual genetic imperative is more fulfilling than current-epoch cultural fads.
what could be more fulfilling than [disruption|big data|reactive web|microservices|deep learning|tech evangelization|nosql]?
While the title focuses on female scientists, males are also affected. From the article: "...23% of men and 43% of women who had become parents had left full-time STEM employment. ... This compared to 16% of child-free men and 24% of child-free women."
That’s even more stark when you put it that way. Men leave at a rate of 9% more than their background rate when they have children, women leave 19% more with kids, over a base rate that even without children exceeds the male rate by 8%.
Life is short, few things are more meaningful and rewarding than raising human beings.
Life is short, few things are more meaningful and rewarding than raising human beings.
Obviously this is a decision for couples to make for themselves, not for bureaucrats, economists, or activists to make for them.
I have yet to be told why it is important for there to be as many women in STEM as men apart from statements that I'm sexist for not knowing
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I have yet to be told why it is important for there to be as many women in STEM as men apart from statements that I'm sexist for not knowing