Family 'or' career?? Doing both in the geosciences
- Dr. Janine Krippner How many times are women told 'family or career' ? How many times have we heard about women being treated differently because they have, or want to have, a family? We have heard that it's even a career killer . If we have kids - your career will suffer. Your kids will suffer . You will basically fail at everything . This is the message I have seen over and over again. I have a couple of issues with this. Firstly - I see women succeed at both. Secondly - I see plenty of Dads raising kids and having a career too! The old saying is that 'it takes a village to raise a child', so why do we have the stigma that women are the only ones affected by raising kids, and that it poorly affects their work? When I started discussing putting this post together I got the reply: "I know :( I have a brilliant chemist friend & she was in tears when she told me she won't pursue a future in academia as she wants children". We need to start...