Parenthood in Academia

Conference organizers, are you asking your participants whether they need childcare support? Are you offering it? #PhDchat #PhDLife #PhDVoice #Academia #AcademicTwitter #Parenthood #ChildCare #GenderGap #GlassCeiling 👇🏽👇🏿👇🏻

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/d4158… #ParentsinScience

🚼 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/neuro… #Opinion by Alessandra Pedrocchi

PhD parents: the pros and cons of having a child during your doctorate nature.com/articles/d4158…

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

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/caregiver-trav… 📅 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.php/1153…

@netplace_semi Congrats and all the best! 👏🏼 Don't forget parents in academia, specially the early career ones. We would be happy to help 🤝🏽

Stay tuned for more updates from NetPlace, follow us here and even better on 🦋(netplace) and join us in celebrating this exciting step forward for our community!

We are thrilled to announce the merger of two key organizations supporting early-career researchers in network science: SYNS (Society of Young Network Scientists) and NetPLACE (Networks, PhD Life, and Complexity). Together, we are now NetPlace! @official_SYNS @netplace_semi

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 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/sdcheng/…

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-…

🚨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/worki…

@RiaIvandic @EEANews @CairoSofie @AnSoLassen We would love to attend. Can we join online?

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/sessions/child…

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-bidr…

“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/journeys/joao-… @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!

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 👇

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

“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…