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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Replying to @zeynep
Compassion & welcoming are great, structural support better - taking children to conferences/work events impractical, alternative v. costly.
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Definitely though need all of it. Single parents have to take children to conferences so need child-care at the conference.
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Not just single parents, what if both parents are at conf? Also, conf reimbursement norms still hold that dinner is covered, childcare isn't
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