when the effects of media wear off and suddenly you're just a girl in a room all over again
9.9.2024.
cognoscit
Ask yourself at every moment "is this necessary?"
“The time available for her to submit grants and write papers decreased sharply in the year and a half after she first became a mother. And her lower productivity continued after she had two more sons, but there often wasn’t a way to explain that on her grant applications.”
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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00252-5
I also have a hard time explaining in my grant applications my PhD period. Even though it took 6 years to finish my PhD, I actually was much faster than average. I was on full maternity leaves not working at all for 2 years (!!) and the rest I worked part time. I managed to get my PhD in total of 3 years and 2 months of full time work equivalent.
I am glad people start noticing this and Nature writes about this issue. Let’s not punish researchers for having kids!
(via miss-biophys)
shit man this got me emotional