Her days are a blur of activity, bracketed by breakfast and dinner with her husband, an attorney who shares parenting chores, and their two children, ages six and three. Gasson arrives at work by 9 A.M. after an hour-long commute, during which she makes phone calls, dictates correspondence, and generally plans out her day. Once she gets to work, her time is taken up by meetings, teaching, and all the time-consuming details of running a laboratory.
Gasson generally gets home around 6 P.M., and when the children are tucked into bed, she catches up on paperwork. A modem, a fax machine, and a laptop computer have become as essential to her as a microscope; this equipment enables her to work at home at night and on weekends. A live-in housekeeper, who's become a virtual family member, provides the extra pair of trusted hands that makes it all work.
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