Mothers in academic research and those who support them say in a report that the funding system can and should remedy gender bias in the sciences.
Such discrimination, the report says, drives mothers out of research careers and stymies all female scientists’ career advancement. Grant agencies must adopt schemes that block built-in bias, such as providing funds for women on parental leave to replace themselves in the lab, and modifying grant applications to allow an accounting for lost productivity during that leave, the report says.
Isabel Torres with her son. She co-founded Mothers in Science, an international non-profit organization that advocates for women in scientific, technical and medical fields.Besides MIS, the 17 endorsing organizations behind the report include the Association for Women in Science and 500 Women Scientists, both US non-profit organizations, and the European Platform of Women Scientists, a non-profit organization in Brussels.
Fernanda Staniscuaski, for example, began her career in 2011 as a molecular biologist at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, calling her research a “full-time devotion”. But after she became a mother, Staniscuaski says, she immediately ran up against structural obstacles. The time available for her to submit grants and write papers decreased sharply in the year and a half after she first became a mother.
, which reached roughly 9,000 researcher-respondents in 128 countries, including parents and those without children., include the fact that in the decade following the birth or adoption of their first child, scientist-mums published at least ten fewer papers on average than did scientist-fathers.
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