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Going Governmental
Rachel Nuwer | Dec 1, 2011 | 8 min read
Federal agencies offer interesting opportunities for researchers looking to do more than bench work.
A Space for Children
Kerry Grens | Aug 1, 2007 | 6 min read
Industry knows that onsite childcare is good for retention. Is academia starting to catch on?
Fixing the Leaky Pipeline
Phoebe Leboy | Jan 1, 2008 | 7 min read
Why aren't there many women in the top spots in academia?
illustration of a scientist carrying a test tube and leaping over a large coronavirus while carrying two children on her back
Pandemic Pressures May Drive Young Scientists Away from Autism Research
Grace Huckins | Jun 18, 2021 | 9 min read
For researchers who work with study participants in person, lockdowns made it impossible to obtain fresh data, a survey finds.
The Best Places to Work in Industry
Maria Anderson | Jun 20, 2004 | 7 min read
The formula for the best workplace: a product to be proud of, appreciative management, and trustworthy colleagues. That's the opinion of participants in The Scientist's Best Places to Work in Industry survey.Our 2004 survey aimed to define what attracts highly talented workers to a company, and what initiatives keep those workers happy once they sign on. We also asked survey participants to identify the employers who come closest to realizing these ideals.Pride in the product ranked first among
Industry Becomes More Hospitable To The Scientist As New Mother
Ricki Lewis | Jan 8, 1995 | 6 min read
The challenge of successfully combining the demands of family and career may be easing for women scientists in industry. With increasing numbers of women opting to work in private- sector research laboratories--and in the wake of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993--many firms have revamped maternity-leave policies to better accommodate new parenthood and the transition back to work. The recently enacted federal law ensures workers in companies with 50 or more employees 12 weeks of unpaid,
Balancing Academic Research And Motherhood Is A Precarious Task
Ricki Lewis | Sep 17, 1995 | 6 min read
Precarious Task Author: Ricki Lewis In the days of TV's June Cleaver -- stay-at-home-mom extraordinaire -- the idea of the female parent spending hours each day lecturing undergraduates or directing laboratory research bordered on absurd. Women were rare among the ranks of academic scientists, and those who were also mothers rarer still. Today women are prominent players in the academic life sciences, and many are mothers, too. Like their counterparts in industry (R. Lewis, The Scientist, Jan.
Women Astronomers Say Discrimination In Field Persists
Barbara Spector | Apr 1, 1991 | 7 min read
Author: BARBARA SPECTOR, p.20 The good news for women astronomers is that their numbers are increasing, according to a recent survey of members of the Washington, D.C.-based American Astronomical Society. But along with this good news comes some additional, disquieting information: Many of these women astronomers reported having been the victims of, or having observed, gender-based discrimination or sexual harassment at some point in their careers. Pamela H. Blondin, who prepared the report,
Making Marriage Work: A Challenge For Scientist Couples
Julia King | Sep 3, 1989 | 8 min read
Geologists Priscilla and Edward Grew have been happily married for the past 14 years. Yet the success of their relationship can hardly be attributed to “togetherness.” Far from it. Priscilla, director of the Minnesota Geological Survey and a full professor of geology at the University of Minnesota, lives in Minneapolis. Edward, meanwhile, is a research associate professor at the University of Maine in Orono. And that’s where he lives—about 1,000 miles as the crow flies,
Trade Unions Target Laboratories As Technicians Seek Better Work Life
Elizabeth Pennisi | Jun 10, 1990 | 10+ min read
Lab aides, though crucial to research, discover that it takes union campaigns to get their bosses' attention BOSTON -- Fifteen years ago, Kristine Rondeau wore a white lab coat and spent her day doing experiments in the physiology and biochemistry departments of Harvard Medical School. Today, her place of work is 67 Winthrop Street in Cambridge, headquarters of the two-year-old Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, which she now heads. Rondeau's career progression parallels an equa

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