By Eve Tahmincioglu
I’m usually the last one to blame motherhood for anything, but there’s a compelling argument in a science journal this week that points the finger at motherhood for the dearth of female scientists, specifically when we decide to become mothers.
The New Scientist magazine published an opinion piece by two British female scientists Seirian Sumner and Nathalie Pettorelli that looks at “The high cost of being a woman in science” and details the top reasons why there are so few women and “what can we do to stop the loss of women from science?”
Alas, you working moms aren’t going to like what they deem the top reason:
“The first gender stumbling block is that men and women differ starkly in reproductive terms.”
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