Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory : : Women Scientists Speak Out / / ed. by Emily Monosson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Abola, A. Pia,; Baier-Anderson, Cal,; Baizer, Joan S.,; Baum, Stefi,; Brecher, Aviva,; Cook, Teresa Capone,; Douglass, Anne,; Douglass, Elizabeth,; Douglass, Katherine,; Duffy, Deborah,; D’Anna, Kimberly,; Efroymson, Rebecca A.,; Epstein, Suzanne,; Fowler, Kim M.,; Hanneman, Debra,; Harris, Deborah,; Kalfoglou, Andrea L.,; McIntosh, Marla S.,; Merritt, Marilyn Wilkey,; Monosson, Emily,; Newberg, Heidi,; Obbard, Rachel,; O’Riordan, Catherine,; Pazdernik, Nanette J.,; Reese, Devin,; Remiker, Marie,; Ross, Deborah,; Seroogy, Christine,; Toscano, Marguerite,; Wesley-Hunt, Gina D.,; Wet, Carol B. de,; Wizemann, Theresa M.,; Zahed, Sofia Katerina Refetoff,; Zydlewski, Gayle Barbin,
• HerausgeberIn: Monosson, Emily,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 8 charts/graphs

About half of the undergraduate and roughly 40 percent of graduate degree recipients in science and engineering are women. As increasing numbers of these women pursue research careers in science, many who choose to have children discover the unique difficulties of balancing a professional life in th...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Section I. 1970s
• Balancing Family and Career Demands with 20/20 Hindsight
• Extreme Motherhood: You Can’t Get There from Here
• Careers versus Child Care in Academia
• Identities: Looking Back over Forty Years as a Social Scientist, Woman, and Mother
• Costs and Rewards of Success in Academia, or Bouncing into the Rubber Ceiling
• One Set of Choices as a Mom and Scientist
• Section II. 1980s
• Three Sides of the Balance
• The Accidental Astronomer
• At Home with Toxicology: A Career Evolves
• Geological Consulting and Kids: An Unpredictable Balancing Act?
• Career Scientists and the Shared Academic Position
• Section III. 1990s
• Less Pay, a Little Less Work
• Reflections of a Female Scientist with Outside Interests
• Part-Time at a National Laboratory: A Split Life
• The Eternal Quest for Balance: A Career in Five Acts, No Intermission
• Reflections on Motherhood and Science Teresa Capone Cook
• The Benefits of Four-Dumbbell Support
• Extraordinary Commitments of Time and Energy
• Finding My Way Back to the Bench: An Unexpectedly Satisfying Destination
• Mothering Primates
• Finding the Right Balance, Personal and Professional, as a Mother in Science
• What? I Don’t Need a PhD to Potty-Train My Children?
• Variety, Challenge, and Flexibility: The Benefits of Straying from the Narrow Path
• The Balancing Act
• Juggling through Life’s Transitions
• Having It All, Just Not All at the Same Time
• Section IV. 2000s
• Exploring Less-Traveled Paths
• Standing Up
• Because of Our Mom, a True Rocket Scientist
• On Being What You Love
• Parsimony Is What We Are Taught, Not What We Live
• Role Models: Out with the Old and In with the New
• Pursuing Science and Motherhood
• Conclusion
• Contributors