The December 16, MAMA PhD blog by Dana Campbell outlines two distinct measures proving women can be in science and have a family.
Campbell talks about the University of Maryland proposing a measure allowing faculty to reduce their workloads by 50% while they are raising children under the age of five. At the same time, Campbell notes that the 2009 Nobel prize for medicine was awarded to two women, Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider, both with families.
My favorite is the quote from Elizabeth Blackburn, "I'm not talking about doing second-rate quality science, far from it. You can do really good research when you are doing it part-time."
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