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07 Feb 2018 | 13:00 GMT

STEM jobs and gender stereotyping pictured at Davos

Posted by David Payne | Categories: Career paths, Communication, In the news

STEM jobs and gender stereotyping pictured at Davos

Donald Trump’s “America first but not alone” speech at last month’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos may have hogged the headlines, but the meeting of world leaders was also chosen to launch the largest ever global survey of primary schoolchildren’s career aspirations.  Read more

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17 Jun 2016 | 13:00 GMT

Babies or career: How to keep young researchers in science

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Career paths, Careers articles, Collaboration, Communication, Diversity, Faculty, Industry, Internship, Mobility, People Management, PhD, Postdoc, Postgraduate, Relationships, Research

Babies or career: How to keep young researchers in science

Naturejobs journalism competition winner Ulrike Träger.  Read more

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20 Jan 2015 | 06:00 GMT

A postgraduate degree and two children: it’s possible

Posted by Julie Gould | Categories: Career paths, Postgraduate

A postgraduate degree and two children: it's possible

Contributor Anne Priestly  … Read more

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  • environmental science
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15 May 2014 | 15:30 GMT

Motherhood and science

Posted by Julie Gould | Categories: Career paths

Kay and Keeva at SFN

Dr Kay Tye, from the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, recently had a baby. Keeva is now 10 months old, and has been to the lab, on multiple trips around the world, and even gets a photo in Nature before her first birthday. In March 2013, Kay featured alongside other fantastic female scientists in the Nature article: From the frontline: 30 something science. At the time, Kay was 5 months pregnant, and was just beginning to dial down her work levels to prepare for her daughter. I caught up with her, just over a year later, to see whether her opinions on having a child whilst being a scientist had changed.  Read more

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10 Aug 2011 | 18:45 GMT

Careers hold scientists back from having children

Posted by Rachel Bowden | Categories: Postdoc, Research, Tenure, US

Many scientists at top US institutions have had fewer children than they wanted as a result of their careers, according to a new study.  Read more

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