Regarding taking parental leaves — and in this women are more strongly affected than men, although fortunately this is slowly changing — I think that the best time to have a baby is during your Ph.D., because even if you lose the project you were working on, you can still pick up another one and fix things at that point.
Not exact matches
But women avail themselves of those policies more often than men do because men fear they may not be
regarded as serious, competitive scientists if they
take parental leave, Mason writes in an e-mail.
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