In my personal experience the most optimal career stage is whatever phase gets you a job with paid parental leave. In the US, never...? I just don't see the benefit of asking this question, this way. It all depends: on biology, on context, support network, funding etc etchttps://twitter.com/evoecolab/status/1115287437549428736 …
Also impacts people of different genders differently. Cishet men actually benefit from having kids in academia - they're promoted quicker. Agreed, this is not an useful phrasing of this question. It's a fraught decision. And seems to be crowdsourcing literature? To what aim?
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Agree. And the physical toll of pregnancy and childbirth, as well. Whew. I get that their goal was to get people discussing, but as someone living the question of timing? Having a kid never seemed plausible to me until parental leave was an option.
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Yeah, and like... Personally, my decisions re parenthood are also heavily influenced by whether I can afford to get pregnant? Like it's not exactly going to happen as a matter of course, no one in my household makes sperm. So when can I afford not only birth but also conception?
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Plus god help you if you're on the job market--women who have kids are perceived as having WAY less focus and attention for careers than men regardless of who the primary parent is. Know a LOT of women who carefully arranged not to be visibly pregnant until job safely in hand.
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