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Women scientists struggle with academia’s structural barriers and family caregiving

Mark Lowey
March 6, 2024

Women scientists – especially mothers and caregivers – continue to struggle with the constant demands and structural biases found in post-secondary institutions, researchers said at CIFAR talk.

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Organizations:	500 Women Scientists, Addgene, CIFAR, Colorado State University, Google Deepmind, McGill University, Mothers in Science, Quebec AI Institute, Queen's University, and UNESCO
People:	Chonnettia Jones, Doina Precup, Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin, and Jessica Metcalf
Topics:	"adunctification" of women and equity-deserving academics, AI for Good Lab, balancing academia's demands with family responsibilities, barriers in academia to women's advancement, bias against women and minority groups in industry, challenges for women scientists in academia, CIFAR talks, CIFAR’s Research, Equity & Inclusion Ambassador’s Community, covering child care costs for women researchers, extending early-career researcher status, Fellowship for the Future program, lack of support and professional isolation, maternity bias and workplace exclusion, need for colleagues' support for women researchers, need for diversity of people in science, need for mentors and sponsors for women scientists, parental leave stigma, percentage of world's researchers who are women, researchers who are mothers and caregivers, STEMM (science, technology, mathematics, medicine) sector, structural biases in post-secondary institutions, targeted recruitment programs by universities, and traditional metrics for assessing scientific merit

Women scientists struggle with academia’s structural barriers and family caregiving

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