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>Yet she never for a moment stops to wonder why it is that a woman like her has to make a choice between family and career, why that is a choice that so many wo
by allovernow 7y ago
>Yet she never for a moment stops to wonder why it is that a woman like her has to make a choice between family and career, why that is a choice that so many women have to make and why it is a choice that so few men have to make.
She literally spends 25%+ of the post explaining the fertility wall that does not affect men.
- YeGoblynQueenne 7y agoThe fertility wall explains why women need to take time off to gestate and give birth before they are in their 40's. It does not begin to explain why womeen in their 20s are expected to give up a career that lasts considerably longer than either gestation or giving birth and recovering from it. That's what the author is failing to discuss. Why do women need to give up their career to _raise_ children when the business of _having_ children takes a tiny portion of the duration of a career in STEM academia. Do you have an explanation for that?