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The parenting penalties faced by scientist mothers

Starting a family at a key career stage comes at a cost to birthing parents — and many end up leaving the profession as a result.
  1. Kendall Powell

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Yhasmin Moura’s research was not the only thing on her mind in 2017 when she was considering postdoctoral positions in the United Kingdom and her home nation of Brazil. Moura was pregnant at the time, so parental-leave policies were a top concern.

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Nature 595, 611-613 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01993-x

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