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Why today's long STEM postdoc positions are effectively anti-mother

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imageDoes it need to be so hard to be a mom and a professor?Quinn Dombrowski, CC BY-SA

The fallen leaves remind, once again, that the Hunger Games of securing coveted tenure-track academic jobs have begun. This is my second year serving on the Northwestern University Department of Neurobiology Search Committee, and we’ve received nearly 300...

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