My future, ladies and gents

[exsequar]

From a purely Darwinian point of view, expecting a young woman to sacrifice her reproductive fitness for the sake of career advancement is simply too much, and yet the structure of academic research, in which one must spend one’s 20s and early 30s as a poorly compensated and minimally empowered graduate student and postdoctoral fellow, and the remainder of one’s 30s and into the low 40s working madly to earn tenure, can demand exactly that.

From The New York Times.

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Comments

[jebbypal]

*nods* Also, if you do talk to female profs or people in the program, you can also ask about if there's any help for soemone who does choose to have a kid during grad school/postdoc. For both, i know you still get maternity leave, but that can be more trouble than it's worth. Some of the society's have started fellowships so that women who choose to start a family as a postdoc can get funding to hire a tech for a year to help them be able to continue their work. It's something that most disciplines are actively trying to address, but as far as monetarily, the men have the same issues w/ enough money to raise a family anyways.

[mona1347.livejournal.com]

And the secretaries! TALK TO DEPARTMENT SECRETARIES.

For thence, the real power lies. :D