Not so life-altering but I always say yes to students who ask to bring a child to class. People ask as a last resort. Never had a problem.
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So when I applied for my current (amazing) job, someone asked to bring a child to my job talk. I said yes, though I admit a slight worry.
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Job talks are high-stakes and that morning, I had been told that my house had probably burned down. (It hadn't. But that's another story).
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Anyway, job talk, (fortunately incorrect) information that I lost my house back home to fire etc. I was like: sure. The more the merrier!
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Talk went fine—the child was a sweet addition to the room. And I got the job! And house next door had burnt down; mine was damaged but ok.
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Later, some faculty said it was a plus for them that I let mom with kid attend my job talk. That's how *I* knew I was with the right people.
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Parents almost never impose kids on an academic situation unless without options. That post-doc advisor? Small gesture but changed history.
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Structurally, academy still set up for a world mostly of men with stay-at-home wives (who edit or even cowrite their papers without credit).
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A study found that new child leave helped young male professors but hurt women. The women spent the year with childcare. Men.. wrote more.
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Of course, increasingly, there are single or primary care-taker fathers, too. Need options for all of us.
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Anyway, to unleash the next discoverer of the BRCA1 gene, provide childcare support and compassion for parents—esp. single parents. /end
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We have a name: Nick Petrakis—who died in 2015. His obit modestly says he was "a generous and enthusiastic mentor."https://twitter.com/tjvision/status/909438347411693569 …
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