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Conference organizers, are you asking your participants whether they need childcare support? Are you offering it?
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📢 Calling all researchers!🔬
👨🔬👩🔬 Should conferences provide childcare and/or remote participation to support parenthood in academia? 🤔
Share your thoughts! Let's make academia more inclusive and accessible. 💪 #ParentingInAcademia #Parenthood #Academia
3%Only childcare support
6%Only remote participation
87%Both childcare & remote
3%Neither
87 votes • Final results Parenthood in Academia retweeted
We’re honored our #FathersWhoCare campaign was featured in @Nature, amplifying our mission and raising awareness of the critical, yet often invisible, role that fathers play in caregiving. Read & share to keep the conversation going: nature.com/articles/d41586-0… #ParentsinScience
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🚼 What if making paternity leave mandatory could actually move the needle on gender equality?
In a new working paper, we study Spain’s paternity leave reforms from 2017 to 2021 — and the effects are remarkable.
📄 cep.lse.ac.uk/_NEW/PUBLICATI…
The Cultural and Social Challenge of Promoting the Professional Value of Motherhood and Fatherhood frontiersin.org/journals/neu… #Opinion by Alessandra Pedrocchi
PhD parents: the pros and cons of having a child during your doctorate
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
Parenthood in Academia retweeted
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 @Momademia
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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/caregiv… 📅 Deadline: March 31, 2025 #WomenInSTEM @Momademia
📢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.p…
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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 @CEP_LSE Centrepiece and paper in AEA P&P w/ @AnSoLassen
In the broader research sector, women are more likely to leave research careers after childbirth than before, while fathers move into these positions.
@RiaIvandic @AnSoLassen
CentrePiece magazine
cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/…
Parenthood in Academia retweeted
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/sd…
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-it-a…
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🚨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/working-pape…
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Join us for the @EEANews 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 @AnSoLassen Petra Moser + drinks afterwards. Sign up - eea-esem-congresses.org/sess…
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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 @AvisenKhrono (In Nowergian😅) about mine and @RiaIvandic's work
khrono.no/a-fa-barn-bidrar-t…
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“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 @jdpereira as he recounts the challenges of a dual academic couple based in the US. mothersinscience.com/journey… @Momademia
Fantastic, congrats Boston!
@netscisociety @NetSciConf 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!
The annual Network Science conference is coming back to Boston to kick off the third decade of our society! @netscisociety @NUnetsi @coronges @barabasi @alexvespi
ALT Slide showing that NetSci 2026 will be in Boston.
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 👇
Three scientist mothers call for a change in how conference childcare costs are reimbursed, drawing on their personal experiences go.nature.com/3X03rLo
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
Penalidad por maternidad en la academia, caso de @Udelaruy Preocupantes datos e interesantísimo paper: researchgate.net/publication…
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“Parenthood and Academic Career Trajectories” (by me and @RiaIvandic) is out in @AEAjournals
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=10.12…
The May 2024 issue of AEA Papers and Proceedings (114) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/763.
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 (@KiersToby) 👉 nytimes.com/2024/04/26/opini…
🙌 Huge shoutout to @FAccTConference for lowering conference access barriers! #Travel #InternetBandwidth #Caretaker grants & #RegistrationWaivers! THAT'S responsible! 💯 Actions > words. Conference organizers, it's 2024! DEI chairs can make the "impossible" possible w/ planning!
ALT https://facctconference.org/2024/dei https://facctconference.org/2024/deischolars
Please note the need-based financial support deadline is soon---April 12. facctconference.org/2024/sch…
Those with caregiving needs or who want to serve as student volunteers should also apply here by April 12.
kind reminder: teapaw.org/parenthood_ns/status/1…
📢 Calling all researchers!🔬
👨🔬👩🔬 Should conferences provide childcare and/or remote participation to support parenthood in academia? 🤔
Share your thoughts! Let's make academia more inclusive and accessible. 💪 #ParentingInAcademia #Parenthood #Academia
3%Only childcare support
6%Only remote participation
87%Both childcare & remote
3%Neither
87 votes • Final results