How parenthood foils STEM careers — and not just for women InternationalWomensDay
Some depressing news on International Women’s Day, March 8: The sky-high cost of having a first child can also include leaving your STEM job.
Over 10% of female STEM professionals go on to work part-time STEM jobs after having their first kid, while around 15% exit the workforce entirely. Co-authors Erin Cech, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Mary Blair-Loy, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, used nationally representative National Science Foundation data collected from 2003 to 2010.
But it’s not just a woman problem, they added. “The difficulty that these professionals may face in balancing caregiving responsibilities with full-time STEM employment suggests that this issue is a concern for the STEM workforce broadly and not just for the retention of women,” they wrote. “Thus, scholarly and policy literature framing child-rearing responsibilities as solely a women’s problem is short-sighted.
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