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by Amanda Lea Taylor¹, Ellen Townes-Anderson² and Isabel Walls³

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More on women in science

¹Austin, Texas²New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ³ILSI Risk Science Institute, Washington, DC

Email: Amanda Lea Taylor - mandytaylor@austin.rr.com; Ellen Townes-Anderson - andersel@umdnj.edu; Isabel Walls - iwalls@ilsi.org
The Scientist 2005, 19(11):8

Published

6 June 2005

While high-quality daytime care is an essential support to working scientists who are parents of young children, neither extended hours nor government subsidies is a solution to the under-representation of women in academia,[1] because neither addresses the root cause of the problem: Women want to mother their children, not simply give birth. To suggest that women will succeed if only they could gain more time away from their children is to confuse childcare, which the market can supply, with parenting, which it will never be able to provide.


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