FemaleScienceProfessor

One of my most-read posts of all time is a rather ancient one, from 2006, on a non-academic topic: my husband's and my decision to hyph...

'Tis the season to think about our ancestral homes and aging relatives. Not that I don't think about them at other times, but in th...

For various reasons, the school my daughter attends this year was unable to organize things so that she could be in the math class that fol...

Not long ago, a reader requested discussion of the topic of having "only" one child. Apparently, this a a topic of raging discussi...

As I was reading various essays and editorials about Motherhood and Moms last weekend, I was reminded of a conversation I had earlier this y...

Perhaps it was inevitable. Throughout our daughter's childhood, the teenage years loomed ever larger. We heard the stories, we knew what...

In the recent NY Times article on " Keeping Women in Science on a Tenure Track ", already noted elsewhere in the blogosphere, par...

On this Thanksgiving Day, I am just thankful that I don't have a meeting today. Otherwise, 'tis the season for time-sucking, soul-de...

A group of parents from my daughter's school needed to work out a carpool schedule for some upcoming events involving our kids' trav...

My daughter is involved in a particular extra-curricular activity that has an incredible number of special terms, abbreviations, acronyms, a...

The Sunday Styles section of The New York Times yesterday has an essay by a woman who is part of a 2-career academic couple of English pro...

What % of faculty in your department have stay-at-home spouses? How should you classify those faculty whose spouses stayed at home while the...

My mother, who is not a scientist and not an academic and who therefore understandably doesn't really know what my professor job entails...

An ancient post that still gets comments from time to time, in many cases from non-academics, concerns the topic of whether a woman chooses ...

One of the interesting aspects of the recent Center for American Progress report, Staying Competitive: Patching America's Leaky Pipelin...

Sorry for the obnoxious title, but I get a lot of requests via my FSP email. I don't want to discourage people from emailing me: sometim...

The recent post on " Kidlessness " elicted quite a few comments, some of which reminded me of a bit of comforting advice I got fro...

Yesterday's post contains some interesting data that the author of the survey will no doubt have fun contemplating and interpreting, kee...

This is part of a comment on yesterday's post: .. doesn't hauling a child around your workplace just reinforce the stereotypes of yo...

On behalf of a reader, today I am seeking information about universities that have banned children from campus buildings 'for safety rea...