Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Family and career: Women in academia lose faith in having it all

More female doctoral students are backing away from the high-pressure academia race at the starting line, trading career ambitions for having a family.

I recently had coffee with one of my top doctoral students, a woman in her late 20s. After years of slogging through data sets for her dissertation, she told me she would finish her doctorate in public policy but not pursue a career in academia. Stunned, I asked why. She was about to get married and hoped to start a family, she said, and she'd concluded that she couldn't be the mother she aspired to be and a contestant in the pressure-filled tenure-track race at the same time.


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