"For parents working in science, tech, engineering, and medicine, Cech says part of what drives them out of full time work or toward other fields is the cultura

"For parents working in science, tech, engineering, and medicine, Cech says part of what drives them out of full time work or toward other fields is the cultural expectation that they treat their careers as the only thing that matters in their lives. Leaving work promptly at 6 pm to pick up your child from daycare doesn’t align with those cultural expectations." The article is interesting in its own right, but I found it interesting that the "M" in the article stands for medicine, and not mathematics. Anecdotally, (the few) professional mathematicians I've interacted with outside of quantitative finance seem to have great work-life balance.