🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

In honour of #BlackHistoryMonth and #IDWGS, we're bringing together leading academic mothers & diversity advocates to discuss how intersectional identities can compound the challenges of navigating a STEMM career. This is a FREE event. Register: shorturl.at/deftO Academic Mom, PhD

What if being a mother (w/ all the attachments that entails) allows you to explore different but equally fruitful scientific narratives? "A Simple Act of Defiance Can Improve Science for Women" by Toby Kiers (Toby Kiers) 👉 nytimes.com/2024/04/26/opi…

“Parenthood and Academic Career Trajectories” (by me and Ria Ivandić) is out in AEA Journals We show that both new mothers and fathers are more likely to leave universities. But while men stay in research, women leave the research career completely aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Gender gap in Uruguayan Academia: Productivity before and after first child was born. - Left: publications per year and gender (grey: men, black: women). - Right: authors per year and gender. #GenderInequality #Academia #GlobalSouth #GenderGap #Uruguay

Researcher parents struggle with conference travel. Proposed solutions include (1) flexible grants for childcare and travel, (2) adaptable funding, (3) comprehensive support for early-career scientists, and (4) transparent policy implementation. Read more 👇

Fantastic, congrats Boston! Network Science Society NetSci 2025 2026 general chairs, please don't forget to include local DEI chairs to take care of important aspects around the conference including #childcare support! 🙏 Wishing you all the best! We are happy to help - pls reach out!

“An academic science job is challenging to afford and justify as a parent. Is it worth it? I think so. I have hope.” Read our inspiring new #SciDadJourney from Joao Pereira as he recounts the challenges of a dual academic couple based in the US. mothersinscience.com/journeys/joao-… Academic Mom, PhD

Upon parenthood, both men and women economists leave universities. But while men get new jobs in the external research sector, women leave research complete I have spoken to Khrono (In Nowergian😅) about mine and Ria Ivandić's work khrono.no/a-fa-barn-bidr…

🚨New working paper!🚨We study the effects of five paternity leave extensions in Spain on early child development, with our own survey data and an RD-DiD approach: bse.eu/research/worki…

Join us for the EEA scientific session on how children shape the gender gap in academia at the EEA-ESEM in Rotterdam on the 26/08 with the amazing @CairoSofie Anne Sophie Lassen Petra Moser + drinks afterwards. Sign up - eea-esem-congresses.org/sessions/child…

Having it all? How the motherhood penalty impacts women’s work beyond pay 24 September 2024 13:00 to 14:00 (UK time, online) kcl.ac.uk/events/having-…

In U.S., the gender gap in going from bio PhD to tenure track appears to be entirely related to children/policies around it scholar.harvard.edu/files/sdcheng/…

What happens to women in economics after having a child? They are are more likely to leave research careers and less likely to get tenure in the first 5 years after childbirth. Summary of the paper is in Centre for Economic Performance Centrepiece and paper in AEA P&P w/ Anne Sophie Lassen

📢To care or work or both? Opportunities and conflicts in family care arrangements (with German-English simultaneous translation) Dr. Ulrike Ehrlich and Sonja Nowossadeck 🗓️Tuesday, 14 January 2025, 1-2 pm, CET (Zoom) Register: survey.demogr.mpg.de/index.php/1153…

Applications are open for our Caregiver Travel Grant 2025! Apply now for a chance to receive flexible funding to cover caregiving expenses while attending an in-person scientific conference! Apply: mothersinscience.com/caregiver-trav… 📅 Deadline: March 31, 2025 #WomenInSTEM Academic Mom, PhD

Our team is growing! Are you passionate about supporting #MothersInSTEM? We’re looking for volunteers to join our team for the following roles: -Social media -Content creation -Fundraising APPLY HERE 👉tinyurl.com/7b78vske #MothersInScience #WomenInSTEM Academic Mom, PhD

PhD parents: the pros and cons of having a child during your doctorate nature.com/articles/d4158…

The Cultural and Social Challenge of Promoting the Professional Value of Motherhood and Fatherhood frontiersin.org/journals/neuro… #Opinion by Alessandra Pedrocchi