On Women in Academia
admin November 13th, 2007
Postdoc Survey Finds Gender Split on Family Issues
Science - November 9, 2007
A new survey of how young biologists view their prospects suggests that the main concern for women is not a hostile climate but insufficient time to juggle the needs of family and career. The study of 1300 postdocs at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, includes a call for more family-friendly policies at U.S. research institutions. . . .Biologist Sue Rosser of Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta agrees that family-friendly policies are key. But she warns against underestimating how gender discrimination affects women, especially at higher rungs of the academic ladder. “It gets complicated pretty quickly,” she says, adding that many female faculty members face isolation and dismissive attitudes throughout their careers.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/318/5852/897?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=rosser&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=date&resourcetype= HWCIT