From: NPR
Merging Career And Motherhood, In Simultaneous Practice
April 22, 2016
NPR:
A few years ago, I received an early career award at the annual meeting of a professional society.
Before the awards ceremony, the other recipients and I were herded together, placed in adjacent seats, and told to wait for the event to begin. The five or six of us had a lot in common. Though we worked in different areas of psychology, we were at similar career stages and had overlapping interests.
But we didn’t spend our time together talking about science or ideas — the work that had won us the awards we were there to receive. What we talked about was childcare.
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