Women face motherhood penalty in STEM careers long before they actually become mothers
- Written by Sarah Thebaud, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of California Santa Barbara
Women in Ph.D STEM programs say they were told they had to choose between family and career. janiecbros/E+ via Getty ImagesThe Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
Unfounded assumptions about how motherhood affects worker productivity can harm women’s careers in science, technology, engineering and math...
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